Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 5. P. 26-34

RADIATION SAFETY

V.F. Demin^1,3, V.V. Romanov², V.Yu. Soloviev³, I.E. Zakharchenko¹

Harmonized Approach to the Health Safety Regulation in Different Areas of Human Activity

1. National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia; 3. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

Purpose: To develop a harmonized approach to the management of safety in different areas of human activity.

Material and methods: The basic principles of decision-making on safety: the justification principle, the principle of the protection optimization and the principle of risk limitation have been regarded.

Results: It is proposed two ways (or steps) of harmonization: the first step is to prepare a scientific basis for the harmonization in sanitary regulation between different areas of human activity, overcoming the existing discords. This allows us to move to international harmonization – the harmonization of safety standards and other hygienic standards existing in different countries. We propose an unified approach to establishment of safety standards and other levels of decision-making on safety with the use of risk analysis in different spheres of human activity. Based on this approach, we propose the general safety standards for professionals and the public. Based on these universal safety standards, other levels of decision making on safety rights for a number of contemporary influences of controlled sources of exposure could be proposed.

Conclusions: The developed approach can serve as a basis for proposals elaboration on international harmonization of regulatory and methodical documents on safety innovation in various fields of industrial and other human activities.

Key words: risk assessment, risk index, methodology, health risk standard, harmonization, decision making principle

REFERENCES

1. ICRP Publication 103. The 2007 Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. Elsevier, 2007, 34 p.
2. Radiation Protection and Safety of Radiation Sources: International Basic Safety Standards. IAEA, 2011, 308 p.
3. Radiation Safety Standards (NRB-99/2009), SanPin 2.6.1.2523–09, 72 p. (Russ.)
4. On the Establishment of an Health Risk Evaluation Methodology for Population, Order from 05.02.2010. (Russ.)
5. On the Establishment of an Interagency Working Group on Harmonization of Health Standards, Order No. 86 from 10.03.2010. (Russ.)
6. Breggin L., Falkner R., Jaspers N. et al. Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies Towards Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation. Report on the international conference “Nanotech Europe 2009”, 28–30 Sept. 2009, Berlin, Germany, 101 p.
7. Demin V.F. Common approach to comparison and standardization of health risk from different sources of harm. // Int. J. Low Radiation, 2006, vol. 2, no. 3/4, pp. 172–178.
8. Demin V.F., Ivanov S.I., Novikov S.M. General methodology of health risk assessment in different hazards sources. // Med. Radiol. and Radiat. Safety, 2009, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 5–15 (Russ.)
9. Demin V.F., Zakharchenko I.E. Health risk from ionizing radiation and other harmful sources: assessment methods and practical application. // Rad. Biol. Radioecol., 2012, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 77–89. (Russ.)
10. Nanomaterials – Toxicity, Health and Environmental Issues. Ed. by C.S.S.R. Kumar, 2006, WILEY-VCH, 333 p.
11. Pope C. A. 3rd, Burnett R.T., Thun M.J. et al. Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution. // JAMA, 2002, vol. 287, i9, pp. 1132 (10).
12. Abalkina I.L., Demin V.F., Ivanov S.I. et al. The economic basis for risk assessment for the calculation of the damage caused by the impact on health of various harm factors. // Problems of Risk Analysis, 2005, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 132–138. (Russ.)
13. Legasov V.A., Demin V.F., Shevelev Ya.V. Safety as Economic Factor. Risk Value. // Problems of Risk Analysis, 2005, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 185–189. (Russ.)
14. Legasov V.A., Demin V.F., Shevelev Ya.V. Discounting and Compromise between the Generations. // Problems of Risk Analysis, 2005, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 141–146. (Russ.)
15. European Population Age Standard. URL: http://www.who.int/.