Re: European Communities and Radiation Exposure of Flight Crews

[Al Tschaeche <antatnsu@pacbell.net>]

Daniel J Strom wrote:
> 
> While perusing the very interesting Council Directive, I inadvertently
> came across the following currently recommended law for the European
> Communities regarding radiation exposure to flight crews.  Our European
> colleagues would appear to have taken the lead on this issue.
> 
> ``Article 42  Protection of Air Crew
> 
> Each Member State shall make arrangements for undertakings operating
> aircraft to take account of exposure to cosmic radiation of air crew who
> are liable to be subject to exposure to more than 1 mSv per year.  The
> undertakings shall take appropriate measures, in particular:
> 
> - to assess the exposure of the crew concerned,
> 
> - to take into account the assessed exposure when organizing working
> schedules with a view to reducing the doses of highly exposed air crew,
> 
> - to inform the workers concerned of the health risks their work
> involves,
> 
> - to apply Article 10 [Special protection during pregnancy and
> breastfeeding] to female air crew.''
> 
> Council of the European Union.  Council Directive 96/29/EURATOM of 13
> May 1996 laying down basic safety standards for the protection of the
> health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising
> from ionizing radiation.  Official Journal of the European Communities
> 39(L 159):1-114; 1996.
> 
> Comments?

Can any of our European radsafers tell us what specific actions have
been taken by any airlines in response to this Directive?  Al Tschaeche