Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ Li­cence hold­ers must keep a re­cord of med­ic­al ra­di­ation in­cid­ents.

² They must, with an in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary work­ing group, reg­u­larly ana­lyse any in­cid­ents which have oc­curred and make the op­er­a­tion­al ad­just­ments re­quired to pre­vent sim­il­ar in­cid­ents.

³ They must re­port the fol­low­ing med­ic­al ra­di­ation in­cid­ents to the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity with­in 30 days:

a.

un­planned ex­pos­ures which led or could have led to mod­er­ate or­gan dam­age, mod­er­ate func­tion­al impair­ment or more ser­i­ous dam­age in the pa­tient;

b.

con­fu­sion of pa­tients or or­gans in thera­peut­ic ex­pos­ures or in dia­gnost­ic ex­pos­ures in the high-dose range;

c.

un­planned ex­pos­ures where the pa­tient re­ceived an ef­fect­ive dose of more than 100 mSv.

⁴ In the case of med­ic­al ra­di­ation in­cid­ents as spe­cified in para­graph 3, the li­cence hold­er must con­duct an in­vest­ig­a­tion and sub­mit a re­port in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 129.