Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ For the pro­tec­tion of people and the en­vir­on­ment against ion­ising ra­di­ation, this Or­din­ance reg­u­lates:

for planned ex­pos­ure situ­ations:

li­cences,

pub­lic ex­pos­ure,

un­jus­ti­fied activ­it­ies,

med­ic­al ex­pos­ure,

oc­cu­pa­tion­al ex­pos­ure,

hand­ling of ra­di­ation sources,

hand­ling of ra­dio­act­ive waste,

pre­ven­tion and man­age­ment of fail­ures;

for emer­gency ex­pos­ure situ­ations: pre­pared­ness and man­age­ment;

for ex­ist­ing ex­pos­ure situ­ations: man­age­ment of ra­di­olo­gic­al legacies, radon, nat­ur­ally oc­cur­ring ra­dio­act­ive ma­ter­i­al and long‑term con­tam­in­a­tion fol­low­ing an emer­gency;

train­ing and con­tinu­ing edu­ca­tion of per­sons hand­ling ion­ising ra­di­ation or ra­dio­activ­ity;

su­per­vi­sion and en­force­ment;

ad­vis­ory activ­it­ies of the Fed­er­al Com­mis­sion for Ra­di­olo­gic­al Pro­tec­tion (KSR).

² It ap­plies to all ex­pos­ure situ­ations for ar­ti­fi­cial and for nat­ur­al ion­ising ra­di­ation.

³It does not ap­ply to:

a.

ex­pos­ures to ra­di­o­nuc­lides nat­ur­ally present in the hu­man body;

b.

ex­pos­ures to cos­mic ra­di­ation; it does, however, ap­ply to ex­pos­ures of air­crew to cos­mic ra­di­ation;

c.

above­ground ex­pos­ures to ra­di­o­nuc­lides present in the un­dis­turbed earth’s crust.