Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ In an emer­gency ex­pos­ure situ­ation, the fol­low­ing are re­quired to as­sume re­spons­ib­il­ity for tasks in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 20 para­graph 2 let­ter b of the RPA:

a.

mem­bers of au­thor­it­ies and ad­min­is­trat­ive bod­ies;

b.

mem­bers of the po­lice, pro­fes­sion­al fire ser­vices, emer­gency med­ic­al ser­vices, civil pro­tec­tion and army;

c.

per­sons and un­der­tak­ings such as mon­it­or­ing and ra­di­olo­gic­al pro­tec­tion teams, for dir­ect in­ter­ven­tion;

d.

per­sons and un­der­tak­ings in the pub­lic and private trans­port sec­tor, for pas­sen­ger and freight trans­port and evac­u­ations;

e.

per­sons and un­der­tak­ings, for in­dir­ect in­ter­ven­tion, such as at-source meas­ures de­signed to pre­vent fur­ther con­tam­in­a­tion of the sur­round­ing area;

f.

health­care pro­fes­sion­als and med­ic­al staff, for the care of ra­di­ation vic­tims or oth­er per­sons af­fected;

g.

per­sons and un­der­tak­ings re­quired to sus­tain crit­ic­al in­fra­struc­ture;

h.

per­sons and un­der­tak­ings re­quired to sus­tain in­dis­pens­able pub­lic ser­vices.

² For the pro­tec­tion of mem­bers of vol­un­tary fire ser­vices, Art­icles 134 and 143–146 ap­ply.

³ Per­sons un­der 18 years of age and preg­nant wo­men shall be ex­emp­ted from tasks as spe­cified in para­graph 1.