Environnement MP101M, Technical Manual

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Environnement
S.A
MP101M
Duplication prohibited
SEPTEMBER 2013
0–10
SAFETY GUIDELINES
0.2 REMINDER OF PRINCIPAL STATUTORY TECHNICAL PRECAUTIONS
In each establishment where this type of equipment is installed, the employer should designate a person
responsible for the nuclear activity to make sure that radiation protection regulations are observed and
applied.
This person must be aware of these instructions and draw up special instructions for employees who work
with this equipment. A model of the safety measures to be exposed in the measurement system is shown at
the end of this document, at paragraph 0.7.
The equipment and work methods and organization shall be designed such that individual or group exposure
in a professional context shall be maintained as low as reasonably possible, below the limits defined by law.
Before the source is set into service, it should be inspected. Routine inspections of equipment and of the
sealing of sources are also provided for in these regulations.
Each source must be delivered with a certificate from the manufacturer certifying the characteristics of the
source, especially that it is a sealed source. A sealed source is a source whose structure is such as to
prevent, under normal conditions of use, any dispersion of the radioactive substances into the environment.
When the sealed source is definitively removed from service, the end-used have to yield the source to an
authorized organism in his country. If there is no this kind of organism who deals with radioactives wastes,
radioactive source shall be return to ENVIRONNEMENT SA, after receive the written agreements from
ENVIRONNEMENT SA.
In case of loss or theft of an artificial radionuclide or in case of accident (fortuitous event causing a risk of
radiation or contamination delivering an equivalent event dose greater than the equivalent of the maximum
permissible dose), the authorized person must inform the government representative of the country where
the event took place. Information has to be followed to ENVIRONNEMENT SA.