Qualifications and Requirements for Recognition

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First EUTERP Platform Workshop Qualifications
and Requirements for Recognition of Radiation
Protection Experts, Radiation Protection
Officers and Radiation Workers Vilnius, May 22
24, 2007. REPUBLIC OF CROATIA Radiation
Protection Education System
Prepared by STATE OFFICE FOR RADIATION
PROTECTION CROATIA, ZAGREB, Frankopanska 11 tel
385 1 4881 770, fax [phone] www.dzzz.hr
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GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
GOVERNMENT
STATE OFFICES
MINISTRIES
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE
STATE OFFICE FOR RADIATION PROTECTION
STATE OFFICE FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY
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RADIATION PROTECTION REGULATORY AUTHORITY
is comprised of

• Ministry of Health and Social Welfare

• State Office for Radiation Protection

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RADIATION PROTECTION REGULATORY AUTHORITY
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE
Sanitary Inspection Department

• performs inspection of radioactive sourcess

Border Sanitary Inspection

• controls legal import and export of radioactive
  sources

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STATE OFFICE FOR RADIATION PROTECTION
RADIATION PROTECTION REGULATORY AUTHORITY

• issues licences to perform practices with
  ionising radiation sources
• approves procurrement, import, export, transport
  and transit of radioactive sources
• organises and supervises environmental monitoring
  
• monitors and maintains records on ionising
  radiation sources and exposed workers
• organises additional professional training of
  workers as well as renewal of knowledge in the
  field of protection against ionising radiation on
  application of protection measures

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RADIATION PROTECTION LEGISLATION
Act on Ionising Radiation Protection and Safety
of Ionising Radiation Sources
(Official Gazette No. 64/06) and its
subordinate regulations
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RADIATION PROTECTION LEGISLATION

• Article 18
• Exposed workers must have special professional
  training regarding the application of measures
  for protection against ionising radiation.
• Article 19
• Special professional training regarding the
  application of measures for protection against
  ionising radiation shall be acquired by exposed
  workers in the course of regular schooling or
  additional training.
• Exposed workers must periodically renew their
  knowledge on the application of measures for
  protection against ionising radiation.
• Conditions, deadlines and the methods for
  acquiring the required professional training and
  renewal of knowledge on the application of
  measures for protection against ionising
  radiation shall be prescribed by an ordinance to
  be issued by the minister competent for health.

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RADIATION PROTECTION LEGISLATION

• Article 28
• The holder of the authorisation must ensure the
  following
• checking medical fitness of exposed
  workers,
• measuring personal doses of exposed
  workers,
• education on application of measures for
  protection against
• ionising radiation for exposed workers,

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RADIATION PROTECTION LEGISLATION

• Odinance on the conditions and manner of
  obtaining the professional qualifications as a
  precondition for work with the sources of
  ionising radiation
• (Official Gazette No. 67/00)

• Radiography technicians, veterinarians, medicine
  students specialising in radiology, nuclear
  medicine, oncology and dentistry attend, during
  their study, specialised courses on radiation
  protection.

• All other exposed workers shall acquire knowledge
  on application of measures for protection against
  ionising radiation in the course of additional
  training

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RADIATION PROTECTION OFFICER

• The holder of the authorisation shall appoint a
  person responsible for protection against
  ionising radiation.
• The person responsible for protection against
  ionising radiation must with regard to
  professional training fulfil the requirements set
  out in the Ordinance on the conditions and manner
  of obtaining the professional qualifications as a
  precondition for work with the sources of
  ionising radiation

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RADIATION PROTECTION SPECIALIST

• A specialist four-year study of medical physics
  was initiated this year.
• - first two years are dedicated to
  theoretical subjects,
• - other two years, work in hospitals -
  practice.
• The graduates will be awarded the title of
• "Radiation Protection Specialist

It is provided that the persons who have finished
the study of physics, have a master degree in
medical physics and ten years of practice in
hospitals get the same title. These persons form
the basis of the lecturing staff on the
faculties.
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CONCLUSION

• Main problem with education is the fact that the
  medical doctors, during their graduate studies,
  do not attend a separate course on radiation
  protection.