Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ In the event of in­creased ra­dio­activ­ity, per­sons with spe­cial re­spons­ib­il­it­ies are in­sured against ac­ci­dents and ill­ness.

2 If the cov­er provided by com­puls­ory ac­ci­dent in­sur­ance and ex­ist­ing private in­sur­ance is not suf­fi­cient, the Con­fed­er­a­tion shall guar­an­tee be­ne­fits in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions of the Fed­er­al Act of 19 June 1992⁵³ on Mil­it­ary In­sur­ance. If ne­ces­sary, the mil­it­ary in­sur­ance or­gan­isa­tion may be in­volved for pur­poses of im­ple­ment­a­tion.

³ If, as a res­ult of their activ­it­ies, per­sons and un­der­tak­ings with spe­cial re­spons­ib­il­it­ies in­cur costs that are not covered, they shall re­ceive com­pens­a­tion from the Con­fed­er­a­tion. The DDPS shall reg­u­late the pro­cessing of fin­an­cial claims.