Under IR(ME)R 2000, which party is responsible for establishing necessary procedures, training, dose recording, and incident reporting?

Under IR(ME)R 2000, which party is responsible for establishing necessary procedures, training, dose recording, and incident reporting?

• A. Employer
• B. Referrer
• C. Practitioner
• D. Operator

Answer: (A)

In IR(ME)R, the organisation that employs the staff is responsible for the overall radiation protection framework. That includes establishing the local procedures and rules, ensuring the necessary training for all staff, maintaining systems to record patient doses, and putting in place processes for incident reporting so that any overdoses or near-misses are properly captured and investigated. The other roles contribute within that framework—practitioners justify and optimise individual procedures, referrers ensure clinical justification, and operators perform the exposure under the established rules—but the duty to set up and maintain the procedures, training, dose recording, and incident reporting rests with the employer.

In IR(ME)R, the organisation that employs the staff is responsible for the overall radiation protection framework. That includes establishing the local procedures and rules, ensuring the necessary training for all staff, maintaining systems to record patient doses, and putting in place processes for incident reporting so that any overdoses or near-misses are properly captured and investigated. The other roles contribute within that framework—practitioners justify and optimise individual procedures, referrers ensure clinical justification, and operators perform the exposure under the established rules—but the duty to set up and maintain the procedures, training, dose recording, and incident reporting rests with the employer.