Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

1 When hand­ling sealed ra­dio­act­ive sources, li­cence hold­ers must main­tain an in­vent­ory.

² They must keep re­cords of the pur­chase, use, trans­fer and dis­pos­al of ra­dio­act­ive ma­ter­i­als.

³ They must re­port an­nu­ally to the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity on their trade in ra­di­ation sources, provid­ing the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

the name of the ra­di­o­nuc­lides, their activ­ity, the date of activ­ity de­term­in­a­tion, and their chem­ic­al and phys­ic­al form;

b.

the name of the equip­ment or art­icles con­tain­ing ra­dio­act­ive sources, with de­tails of the ra­di­o­nuc­lides, their activ­ity and the date of activ­ity de­term­in­a­tion;

c.

the name of the in­stall­a­tions and the as­so­ci­ated para­met­ers;

d.

the ad­dresses and li­cence num­bers of do­mest­ic cli­ents.

⁴ The li­cens­ing au­thor­ity may spe­cify ad­di­tion­al re­cord-keep­ing and re­port­ing du­ties in the li­cence.