Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ Li­cence hold­ers must make the ne­ces­sary in­tern­al pre­par­a­tions so that fail­ures and their ef­fects can be man­aged.

² They must is­sue dir­ect­ives con­cern­ing the emer­gency meas­ures to be ad­op­ted.

³ They must en­sure that ap­pro­pri­ate re­sources are avail­able at all times for the man­age­ment of fail­ures and their ef­fects; in rooms where ra­dio­act­ive ma­ter­i­als are handled, this also ap­plies to fire­fight­ing.

⁴ They must en­sure that staff re­ceive reg­u­lar in­struc­tion on rules of be­ha­viour, are trained in emer­gency meas­ures and are fa­mil­i­ar­ised with the loc­a­tion and use of the rel­ev­ant re­sources.

⁵ They must take ap­pro­pri­ate meas­ures to en­sure that, in a par­tic­u­lar case, the per­sons de­ployed to man­age fail­ures and their ef­fects do not re­ceive an ef­fect­ive dose of more than 50 mSv or, to save hu­man lives, more than 250 mSv.

⁶ They must in­form the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies and emer­gency ser­vices of the ra­dio­act­ive ma­ter­i­als present in the en­ter­prise.

⁷ The su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity may re­quire that ex­er­cises be con­duc­ted to test re­port­ing chan­nels, the func­tion­al­ity of re­sources and the ne­ces­sary skills of staff. It may or­gan­ise ex­er­cises it­self.