The document discusses the IAEA safety standards, which are established to ensure that nuclear material and radiation sources are used safely. It provides three key points: 1. The IAEA safety standards have a status derived from the IAEA's Statute and are developed through an open process to establish fundamental safety principles and requirements. 2. The standards are structured into three categories - Fundamentals, Requirements, and Guides - which provide a robust framework for ensuring safety. 3. The standards are based on estimates of radiation health effects from UNSCEAR and recommendations on radiation protection from ICRP. They reflect an international consensus on high levels of safety.

1. IBRAHIM,M MUHYDEEN
Department Of Radiological Safety

2. “Governments, regulatory bodies and operators everywhere must ensure
that nuclear material and radiation sources are used beneficially, safely
and ethically. The IAEA safety standards are designed to facilitate this,
and I encourage all Member States to make use of them.”
Yukiya Amano
Director General

3.  The objective is to describe the strategies, processes
and establishment of the IAEA safety standards.

4.  IAEA Statute.
 Introduction.
 Hierarchy.
 Safety standard structure.
 Relationship between the three (3) categories.
 Scientific Basis of safety standards.
 Historical perspective.
 Conclusion.

5.  “To establish or adopt… [in consultation with…]
standards of safety for the protection of health and
minimization of danger to life and property”
 “…and to provide for the application of these
standards

6. The IAEA Safety Standards
 The IAEA safety standards have a status derived
from the IAEA’s Statute, which authorizes the
IAEA“To establish or adopt, in consultation and,
where appropriate in collaboration with the
competent organs of the United Nations and with
the specialized agencies concerned, standards of
safety for protection of health and minimization of
danger to life and property...and to provide for the
application of these standards”.

7.  The safety standards provide a robust framework
of fundamental principles, requirements and
guidance to ensure safety. They are developed
through an open and transparent process for
gathering ,integrating and sharing the knowledge
and experience gained from the actual use of
technologies and from the application of the safety
standards, including emerging trends and issues of
regulatory importance.

9. • The IAEA safety standards reflect an international
consensus on what constitutes a high level of safety for
protecting people and the environment from harmful
effects of ionizing radiation. They are issued in the
IAEA Safety Standards Series, which has three
categories

10.  Safety Fundamentals
 Safety Requirements
 Safety Guides
 The Safety Fundamentals presents the
fundamental safety objective and principles of
protection and safety and provides the basis for the
safety requirements. consist of 1 publication.

11.  Safety Requirements An integrated and consistent set
of stable Safety Requirements publications which establish
the requirements that must be met to ensure the
protection of people and the environment, both now and
in the future. The requirements are governed by the
objective and principles of the Safety Fundamentals, it
consist of 14 publications.
 Safety Guides provide recommendations and guidance on
how to comply with the safety requirements, indicating an
international consensus that it is necessary to take the
measures recommended (or equivalent alternative
measures).it consist of 103 publications

13.  The main thrust of the structure is divided into three
parts
 A unified Safety Fundamentals.
 General Safety Requirements (GSR) in seven parts
applicable to all facilities and activities.
 complemented by a set of six facilities and activities
Specific Safety Requirements (SSRs). The Safety
Requirements are implemented through a set of general
and specific safety guides.

15. The IAEA’s international standards are based on :
Estimates on radiation health effects made by the
United Scientific Committee On The Effects Of
Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR).
AND
Radiation protection recommendations of the
International Commission on Radiological Protection
(ICRP)

16. ICRP
Principle
Recommendation
UNSCEAR
Effects
IAEA
Standard

17.  Shortly after its inception in 1957, the Secretariat
began developing and setting safety standards and
the very first IAEA publication Safety Series No. 1
on the safe handling of radioisotopes, published in
December 1958 followed by regulations for the safe
transport of radioactive material in 1961, the basic
safety standards for radiation protection in 1962
and safe radioactive waste disposal into the ground
in 1965

18.  A revised version was published in 1967. A third
revision was published by the IAEA as the 1982 Edition
this edition was jointly sponsored by the IAEA,
International Labour Organization (ILO), Nuclear
Energy Agency (OECD/NEA) and World Health
Organization (WHO). The next version was the
International Basic Safety Standards for Protection
against Ionizing Radiation and for the Safety of
Radiation Sources (the BSS), published by the IAEA in
February 1996.

19.  The revision of the BSS commenced in early 2007 with
a series of drafting meetings on the basis of thematic
areas, Further drafting and review meetings with the
potential sponsoring organizations were held from late
2007 to 2009. The IAEA Safety Standards Committees
and groups of experts from potential sponsoring
organizations provided feedback on drafts of the
revised BSS in 2008 and 2009.

20.  In January 2010, the draft text was submitted to IAEA
Member States for comment. The Board of Governors
of the IAEA, at its meeting on 12 September 2011,
established as an IAEA safety standard in accordance
with the Statute this Safety Requirements publication,
and authorized the Director General to promulgate
these Safety Requirements and to issue them as a
Safety Requirements publication in the IAEA Safety
Standards Series.

21.  The IAEA safety standards are applicable, as relevant,
throughout the entire lifetime of all facilities and
activities existing and new utilized for peaceful
purposes and to protective actions to reduce existing
radiation risks. They can be used by States as a
reference for their national regulations in respect of
facilities and activities.

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