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Regulatory Guides on radiation safety (ST Guides) and STUK's decisions

 STUK's decisions

NameDate of publication 
17 August 2006
16 August 2011
8 November 2011


General guides

NumberTitleIssued
ST 1.1Safety fundamentals in radiation practices  pdf  html23 May 2005
ST 1.3Warning signs for radiation sources  (pdf)16 May 2006
ST 1.4Radiation user's organization  2 November 2011
ST 1.5Exemption of the use of radiation from the safety licence and reporting obligation   (pdf)  (html)1 July 1999
ST 1.6Operational radiation safety  (pdf)10 December 2009
ST 1.7Radiation protection training in health care   (pdf)  (html)17 February 2003
ST 1.8Qualifications of persons working in radiation user’s organization and radiation protection training 17 February 2012
ST 1.9Radiation practices and radiation measurements   (pdf)17 March 2008
ST 1.10Design of rooms for radiation sources   (pdf)14 July 2011

Radiation therapy

NumberTitleIssued
ST 2.1Safety in radiotherapy  18 April 2011

Diagnostic radiology

NumberTitleIssued
ST 3.1Dental X-ray examinations in health care20 August 2011
ST 3.2Mammography equipment and their use   (pdf) 13 August 2001
ST 3.3X-ray examinations in health care   (pdf)20 March 2006
ST 3.7Breast cancer screening based on mammography   (pdf) 28 March 2001

Industry, research, education and commerce

NumberTitleIssued
ST 5.1Radiation safety of sealed sources and devices containing them   (pdf)7 November 2007
ST 5.2The use of  control and analytical x-ray apparatus   (pdf)26 September 2008
ST 5.3Use of ionising radiation in the teaching of physics and chemistry  (pdf)4 May 2007
ST 5.4Trade in radiation sources  (pdf)19 December 2008
ST 5.6Radiation safety in industrial radiography  9 March 2012
ST 5.7Shipments of radioactive waste and spent fuel6 June 2011
ST 5.8Installation, repair and servicing of radiation appliances   (pdf)4 October 2007

Unsealed sources and radioactive wastes

NumberTitleIssued
ST 6.1Radiation safety when using unsealed sources   (pdf)17 March 2008
ST 6.2Radioactive wastes and discharges   (pdf) 1 July 1999
ST 6.3Use of radiation in nuclear medicine   (pdf)  (html)18 March 2003

Radiation doses and health surveillance

NumberTitleIssued
ST 7.1Monitoring of radiation exposure   (pdf)2 August 2007
ST 7.2Application of maximum values for radiation exposure and principles for the calculation of radiation doses   (pdf)9 August 2007
ST 7.3

Calculation of the dose caused by internal radiation  (pdf)

The tables in this ST Guide are not available on the STUK website. The Guide with its tables can be ordered from STUK, tel. +358 9 759 88 246 or fax +358 9 759 88 248.

23 September 2007
ST 7.4The dose register and data reporting   (pdf)9 September 2008
ST 7.5Medical surveillance of occupationally exposed workers  (pdf)4 May 2007

Veterinary medicine

NumberTitleIssued
ST 8.1Radiation safety in veterinary X-ray examinations  20 March 2012

Non-ionizing radiation

NumberTitleIssued
ST 9.1Radiation safety requirements and regulatory control of tanning appliances (In Finnish)1 December 2003
ST 9.2Radiation safety of pulsed radars (In Finnish)2 September 2003
ST 9.3Radiation safety during work on masts at FM and TV stations (In Finnish)2 September 2003
ST 9.4Radiation safety of high power display lasers (In Finnish)28 February 2007

Natural radiation

NumberTitleIssued
ST 12.1Radiation safety in practices causing exposure to natural radiation   (pdf)2.2.2011
ST 12.2The radioactivity of building materials and ash (pdf)17 December 2010
ST 12.3Radioactivity of household water  (pdf)9 August 1993
ST 12.4Radiation safety in aviation (pdf)  (html)20 June 2005

 

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