International Recommendations for X-ray and Radium Protection

At the meeting of the Radio-Physics Section of the International Congress of Radiology at Stockholm on Thursday, July 26, the proposals of the British X-ray and Radium Protection Committee were discussed. Dr. G. W. C. Kaye, in moving the adoption of the proposals, said:— As the result of its seven years' experience in England and a close scrutiny of the protective recommendations in other countries, the British X-ray and Radium Protection Committee ventures to submit for international adoption a series of recommendations designed to assist in the well-being of the radiological worker and to unify protective measures in all countries. These proposals, which have been circulated to all members, are not to be regarded as regulations or as having any legal significance or authority. Such a question, it is considered, is best left to each individual country to deal with. The proposals are to be regarded as an attempt at representing, according to present notions, ideal conditions which will, for example, be helpful in designing new X-ray departments or modifying existing ones. It may well be that in some cases and in some countries it may not be possible to follow the recommendations rigidly. Some latitude is no doubt possible and for that reason we have confined ourselves to major recommendations and left it to each country to elaborate detail.