Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2020, publiée 109ème session CIT (2021)

Convention (n° 115) sur la protection contre les radiations, 1960 - Guernesey

Articles 3(1), 6, 7 and 8 of the Convention. Appropriate steps taken to ensure effective protection of workers, in light of knowledge available at the time. Maximum permissible doses of ionising radiation. With regard to its previous comments on the review of the Approved Code of Practice relating to the Protection of Persons against Ionising Radiations of 1995 (ACoP), the Committee notes that the Government indicates in its report that it plans to mirror the United Kingdom Ionising Radiation Regulations 2017, which implements the Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom of 2013, laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation. The Committee also notes that, according to the information available on the Government’s website, while there are no immediate plans to update Guernsey's Safety of Employees (Ionising Radiations) Ordinance 1967, the Health and Safety Executive of Guernsey (HSE) benchmarks the health and safety arrangements against, inter alia, relevant United Kingdom legislation and approved codes of practice. For work with ionising radiations, it treats the United Kingdom Approved Code of Practice on the Ionising Radiation Regulations 2017 as the appropriate standard to be achieved for Guernsey and Alderney medical, dental and veterinary providers and other ionising radiation users. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on any progress made in the review of its system of protection of workers against ionising radiations in the light of current knowledge, including the ACoP. In this regard, the Committee requests the Government to provide, in particular, up to date information concerning the establishment of a prohibition on the engagement of workers under the age of 16 in work involving ionising radiation (Article 7(2) of the Convention) and the fixing of dose levels of ionising radiation for workers not directly engaged in radiation work, but who remain or pass where they may be exposed to ionising radiations or radioactive substances (Article 8 of the Convention).