Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ The li­cence hold­er must en­sure that ra­di­ation sources:

a.

are sub­jec­ted to test­ing pri­or to their first use;

b.

are reg­u­larly in­spec­ted and main­tained.

²Para­graph 1 also ap­plies to as­so­ci­ated med­ic­al im­age re­cept­or sys­tems, im­age dis­play and im­age doc­u­ment­a­tion equip­ment, nuc­le­ar medi­cine ex­am­in­a­tion sys­tems and act­i­vi­met­ers.

³ The FDHA may, in con­sulta­tion with EN­SI, define the min­im­um scope and the peri­od­icity of test­ing, the min­im­um scope of the qual­ity as­sur­ance pro­gramme and the re­quire­ments for the im­ple­ment­ing bod­ies. It shall take in­to ac­count na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al qual­ity as­sur­ance stand­ards.