[ RadSafe ] Progress report, next ICRP Recommendations and Radiological protection in medicine

[Dawson, Fred Mr]

>From the ICRP

http://www.icrp.org/

1. Progress report, next ICRP Recommendations 
The second round of public consultation on the draft next
Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological
Protection met with overwhelming interest, and ICRP has received over
700 pages of written comments and suggestions, which are visible at
http://www.icrp.org/remissvar/listcomments.asp .In addition, the process
was augmented by several workshops and meetings organised by
international and national bodies with an interest in radiological
protection.
Based on this considerable and very helpful input from the stakeholders,
ICRP has now prepared a substantially revised document, which is now
being considered by the Main Commission of ICRP with the intention of
taking a final decision concerning the Recommendation at its meeting
19-21 March 2007.

Thanks to the world-wide scientific exchange of ideas during a process
of public and expert participation that began with a journal paper 8
years ago, in 1999, and has since involved numerous international and
national meetings and two rounds of full-fledged public consultation on
complete draft texts, the main principles are now fairly firmly
established. A number of organisations that are using ICRP
Recommendations as a basis for their decisions are now keen for ICRP to
complete its process so that they can update their system of protection
accordingly, and the remaining amendments to the draft Recommendations
will be primarily of an editorial nature. 

We are thus now past the stage of formal consultations. Nevertheless,
editorial comments are of course welcome, and may be e-mailed to the
Scientific Secretary of ICRP, Dr Jack Valentin
(scient.secretary at ircp.org), preferably before the end of February. Any
such messages received will be posted for information on this web site
after the March 2007 meeting of ICRP.

2. Radiological protection in medicine
The work of an ICRP Task Group is nearing completion. The report of the
Task Group addresses Radiological Protection in Medicine. This summary
constitutes a building block underpinning the imminent next fundamental
Recommendations of ICRP, and can also be seen as amending and updating
ICRP Publication 73.
 
The draft is posted for consultation on our comments page - on that
page, just to the right of the Document drop-down menu, please click
'view document' to download it! We would appreciate your comments no
later than Friday 6 April, 2007.


Fred Dawson
Fwp_dawson at hotmail.com