@conference{
author = "Zutz, Hayo and Kržanović, Nikola and Hupe, Oliver",
year = "2022",
abstract = "Outdoor active (area)dosemeters are becoming increasingly important for
environmental monitoring, notably in early warning and non-governmental networks
that have emerged because of increasing awareness of potential nuclear accidents.
A clear separation of workplace and environmental area dosemeters is absent. This
has led to a state whereby different international standards for area environmental
and area workplace dosemeters are being used. These non-harmonised type test
requirements set in the different international standards for environmental and area
dosemeters are related to the same operational radiation protection quantity -
ambient dose equivalent rate. Even though most requirements for area workplace
and environmental dosemeters are similar, differences are needed, for example the
dose rate range and the angular dependence.
Therefore, harmonisation of the type test requirements for both environmental and
area workplace dosemeters will improve the type testing procedures and standard
acceptability criteria for these dosemeters, impacting on metrology calibration and
testing laboratories, dosemeter manufacturers, stakeholders and end-users.
One of the main objectives of the 17RPT01 DOSEtrace (Improving Europe's
calibration facilities for radiation monitoring equipment) project is the development
and validation of traceable measurement capabilities for operational radiation
protection quantities. Harmonisation of type test requirements for the measuring
instruments which measure ionising radiation dose in terms of ambient dose
equivalent rate is closely related.
In the presented work, existing type test requirements set by different international
standards were summarized and the most relevant requirements for both workplace
and environmental area dosemeters were extracted. Two sets of requirements were
formulated – one for workplace area monitors and one for environmental area
monitors. The requirements and test methods were experimentally tested with
selected area dose rate meters.
The results could be used as an input for the IEC standardisation body to set up
reliable unified type test requirements for both dosemeter types.",
journal = "IM 2022 : NEUDOS 14 : International Conference on Individual Monitoring of Ionising Radiation and Neutron and Ion Dosimetry Symposium : Book of abstracts",
title = "Summary of Performance Testing Requirements for Environmental Dosemeters Compared to Those Used in the Workplace",
pages = "169-169",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_vinar_11950"
}
