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Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 26 April 2017 (Status as of 1 January 2021)

Art. 53 Young people and pregnant or breastfeeding women

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.