Report of IRPA task group on issues and actions taken in response to the change in eye lens dose limit

Marie Claire Cantone (1) , Merce Ginjaume (2) , Colin J Martin (3) , Nobuyuki Hamada (4) , Sumi Yokoyama (5) , Jean-Marc Bordy (6) , Lawrence Dauer (7) , Ariel Durán (8) , Cameron Jeffries (9) , Willie Harris (10) , Olga Kashirina (11) , Arthur Omondi Koteng (12) , Severino Michelin (13) , Waraporn Sudchai (14)

1 UNIMI - Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan
2 UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya [Barcelona]
3 University of Glasgow
4 Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI)
5 Fujita Health University
6 LNHB - Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel
7 Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center [New York]
8 School of Medicine [Montevideo, Uruguay]
9 FUMC - Flinders University Medical Centre [Bedford Park, SA, Australia]
10 Exelon Nuclear
11 SRC IBR - A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical and Biophysical Center
12 RPB - Kenia Radiation Protection Board
13 Nuclear Regulatory Authority (Argentina)
14 TINT - Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology

In 2018, the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) established its third task group (TG) on the implementation of the eye lens dose limit. To contribute to sharing experience and raising awareness within the radiation protection community about protection of workers in exposure of the lens of the eye, the TG conducted a questionnaire survey and analysed the responses. This paper provides an overview of the results of the questionnaire.

Keywords: IRPA task group; eye lens dose limit; occupational exposure; ionizing radiation; radioactivity; metrology; radiation protection

Domains: Medical Physics [physics.med-ph]; Bioengineering

Marie Claire Cantone, Merce Ginjaume, Colin J Martin, Nobuyuki Hamada, Sumi Yokoyama, et al.. Report of IRPA task group on issues and actions taken in response to the change in eye lens dose limit. Journal of Radiological Protection, 2020, 40 (4), pp.1508-1533. ⟨10.1088/1361-6498/abb5ec⟩. ⟨cea-03562173⟩