Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ Per­sons aged un­der 16 years must not be oc­cu­pa­tion­ally ex­posed.

² For per­sons aged between 16 and 18 years and for preg­nant wo­men, the dose lim­its spe­cified in Art­icle 57 ap­ply.

³ From the time when a preg­nancy be­comes known un­til its com­ple­tion, the ra­di­ation ex­pos­ure of the preg­nant wo­man must be de­term­ined monthly.

⁴ The FDHA shall spe­cify, in con­sulta­tion with EN­SI, when preg­nant wo­men must be ad­di­tion­ally equipped with an act­ive per­son­al do­si­met­er.

⁵ Preg­nant wo­men must, if they so re­quest, be ex­emp­ted from the fol­low­ing activ­it­ies:

a.

from flight du­ties;

b.

from any work with ra­dio­act­ive ma­ter­i­al in­volving a risk of in­takes or con­tam­in­a­tion;

c.

from activ­it­ies which may only be per­formed by an oc­cu­pa­tion­ally ex­posed per­son in cat­egory A.

⁶ Breast­feed­ing wo­men must not per­form any work with ra­dio­act­ive ma­ter­i­al in­volving an in­creased risk of in­takes.