Singapore legislation

Regulation 51

of Radiation Protection (Ionising Radiation) Regulations 2023

Regulation 51

Monitoring of public exposure

Every licensee must —

(a)

establish and implement monitoring programmes to ensure that public exposure due to sources under the responsibility of the licensee is adequately assessed and that the assessment is sufficient to verify and demonstrate compliance with these Regulations or the licence conditions;

(b)

maintain appropriate records of the results of the monitoring programmes and estimated doses to members of the public;

(c)

report or make available to and when required by the Director‑General or any authorised officer the results of the monitoring programme;

(d)

report promptly to the Director‑General any level of public exposure exceeding the limits in Part 2 of the Second Schedule or in licence conditions relating to public exposure;

(e)

establish and maintain a capability to carry out monitoring in an emergency, in the event of any unexpected increase in radiation level or concentration of radionuclides in the environment due to any accident or other unusual event attributed to the source or facility;

(f)

verify the adequacy of the assumptions made for the assessment of public exposure and radiological environmental impacts; and

(g)

publish or make available, on request by the Director‑General, results from source monitoring and environmental monitoring programmes and assessments made of doses from public exposure.