Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 (No. 115) - Slovakia (Ratification: 1993)

Legislation. The Committee notes the information regarding newly adopted legislation including Act No. 355/2007, Coll. on Protection, Support and Development of Public Health and Regulation No. 345/2006, Coll. on basic safety requirements for protection of the health of workers and the general public against the effects of ionizing radiation, which give effect, inter alia, to Article 12 of the Convention.

Articles 3 and 6 of the Convention. Permitted dose limits. Pregnant workers. Article 7(1)(b). Exposure limits for young persons between 16 and 18 years of age. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes with satisfaction the information that Regulation No. 345/2006, Coll., referred to above, provides, inter alia,  that the exposure limit for pregnant women working in a workplace with sources of ionizing radiation shall be such that from the time when the woman informs the operator until the end of her pregnancy the sum of the effective doses from external exposure and the committed effective doses from internal irradiation of the foetus does not exceed 1 mSv, and that the prescribed dose limits for exposure to radiation of young persons between 16 and 18 years of age are in conformity with the relevant exposure limits recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), that is: (a) an effective dose of 6 mSv in a year; (b) an equivalent dose to the lens of the eye of 50 mSv in a year; and (c) an equivalent dose to the extremities or the skin of 150 mSv in a year.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.