Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2019
Keywords:
Action 11 - Dialogue with industry, Action 3 - Image quality assessment based on clinical indications, Action 13 - Stakeholder engagement and collaboration, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Nuclear medicine, CT, Nuclear medicine conventional, Equipment, Technical aspects, Safety, Occupational / Environmental hazards, Radiotherapy techniques, Quality assurance
Authors:
B. C. Godthelp, K. Van Slambrouck
DOI:
10.26044/esi2019/ESI-0096
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 policy and decisions within their countries.
HERCA brings together 56 radiation protection authorities from 33 European countries (Figure 1).
The present chairman of HERCA is Mrs.
Karla Petrova,
deputy chairman for radiation protection,
state office for nuclear safety,
Czech Republic.
The structure of HERCA is illustrated in Figure 2.
HERCA Working Group on Medical Applications (WGMA)
The HERCA Working Group on Medical Applications (WGMA) covers all radiation protection issues concerning the medical applications of ionizing radiation for diagnosis and treatment.
Its activities are conducted as work packages and include discussions,
surveys,
hosting stakeholder meetings and publishing position papers on key issues.
For more information about HERCA,
please visit our website www.herca.org.