Abstract

"This Uganda Standard provides guidelines and performance criteria for sampling airborne radioactive substances in the workplace. Emphasis is on health protection of workers in the indoor environment. This document provides best practices and performance-based criteria for the use of air sampling devices and systems, including retrospective samplers and continuous air monitors. Specifically, this document covers air sampling program objectives, design of air sampling and monitoring programs to meet program objectives, methods for air sampling and monitoring in the workplace, and quality assurance to ensure system performance toward protecting workers against unnecessary inhalation exposures. The primary purpose of the surveillance of airborne activity concentrations in the workplace is to evaluate and mitigate inhalation hazards to workers in facilities where these can become airborne. A comprehensive surveillance program can be used to • determine the effectiveness of administrative and engineering controls for confinement, • measure activity concentrations of radioactive substances, • alert workers to high activity concentrations in the air, • aid in estimating worker intakes when bioassay methods are unavailable, • determine signage or posting requirements for radiation protection, and • determine appropriate protective equipment and measures. This document does not address outdoor air sampling, effluent monitoring, or radon measurements. This standard was published on 2021-12-14 "