Protection of workers
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(1) Every licensee shall comply with all such directives as the appropriate authority may issue from time to time for the protection of the health and for the safety of workers and all other persons from ionizing radiation, including directives in respect of matters pertaining to— (a) conditions of exposure; (b) dose limitation; (c) occupational exposure; (d) medical exposure; (e) exposure of members of the public and persons other than workers, excluding medical exposure; (f) accidental exposure; (g) emergency exposure; and (h) exposure other than any of those specified in paragraphs (a) to (g). (2) If the appropriate authority has reasonable cause to believe that any worker has been or is likely to be exposed to ionizing radiation, the appropriate authority may require the licensee— (a) to provide and require such worker to wear approved personnel-monitoring devices; (b) to keep records of dose and type of ionizing radiation to which such worker has been or is likely to be exposed; (c) to install or use monitoring devices in work places to record the amount of ionizing radiation present and to keep records thereof; and (d) to provide medical examination for such worker by an approved registered medical practitioner at such intervals as the appropriate authority may determine. (3) The appropriate authority may in its discretion require the licensee to provide at such intervals as it may determine medical examination by an approved registered medical practitioner for all or any of the workers of the licensee who are exposed or are likely to be exposed to ionizing radiation. (4) Any registered medical practitioner performing a medical examination under paragraph (2)(d) or subsection (3) shall inform the appropriate authority in the prescribed form of every worker whose health is or is reasonably suspected to be affected by ionizing radiation. (5) For the purposes of this section, “worker” includes any person working under the instruction of the licensee, whether or not employed by the licensee, in the handling or use of, or who will come into contact with, any radioactive material, nuclear material, prescribed substance or irradiating apparatus. (6) The Minister may prescribe the basic safety standards for the protection of workers and all other persons against ionizing radiation.