Background/introduction
Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM lays down the basic safety standards for the protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation.
This includes the protection of workers,
public and environment as well as protection of patients.
All EC member states were obliged to bring into force the laws,
regulations and administrative provisions that are necessary to comply with this Directive by 6 February 2018.
Heads of the European Radiological Protection Competent Authorities (HERCA) is a voluntary association in which the Heads of Radiation Protection Authorities...
Description of activity and work performed
During the transposition period,
the WGMA has been working on the following topics:
Individual justification in radiology (article 55.2 (b) of 2013/59/EURATOM)
Generic justification (article 55.2 (a) of 2013/59/EURATOM)
Accidental or unintended exposures (article 63 of 2013/59/EURATOM)
Inspection by the competent authorities
Optimised use of CT scanners
Non-medical imaging
Clinical audit
Medical Equipment (article 78 (2) of 2013/59/EURATOM)
Individual justification in radiology
A HERCA Position paper “Justification of Individual Medical Exposures for Diagnosis’ has been published in October 2014.
A multi-stakeholder meeting has been organised...
Conclusion and recommendations
Since 2010,
the WGMA has organized more than 5 multi stakeholder workshops,
2 inspector workshops,
1 common action week on inspection of justification in radiology,
and has published 10 position papers .
The WGMA provides through these position papers tools to assist the proper transposition and implementation of these EU Directive-requirements.
This included the individual justification as well as justification of new types or classes of practices and the accidental and unintended exposures.
All HERCA papers are freely available on the HERCA website: www.herca.org.
Over...
Personal/organisational information
HERCA as an organization
The Heads of the European Radiological protection Competent Authorities (HERCA) was founded in 2007 on the initiative of the French Autorité de sûreté nucléaire (ASN).
It is a voluntary association in which the heads of the Radiation Protection Authorities work together in order to identify common interests in significant regulatory issues and provides practical solutions for these issues.
The uniqueness of HERCA is that it is composed of the heads of organizations that either have decision-making capacity or significant influence on...
References
2017 December: HERCA European Action Week – Results of a coordinated inspection initiative assessing justification in radiology,
E.G.
Friberg.
International Conference on Radiation Protection in Medicine: Achieving Change in Practice.
http://www.herca.org/uploaditems/documents/161108%20-%20Inspection%20week/IAEA%20Paper%20EFriberg.pdf
2017 November: HERCA report: CT manufactures Stakeholder Involvement
http://herca.org/docstats/CT%20manfacturer%20involvement.pdf
2017 November: HERCA position paper on the Justification of New Types or Classes of Practices In the Medical Field
http://herca.org/docstats/HERCA%20PositionPaper%20GenJust.pdf
2017 June : HERCA Position Paper Accidental and Unintended Medical Exposures
http://www.herca.org/docstats/HERCA%20position%20paper%20AUE%20%28May%202017%29.pdf
2014 Oct and 2016 Feb (addendum) : HERCA CT Position paper The process...