Year: 1991
Type: article
Abstract: Chapter 1 deals with the history of the Commission and its recommendations.It sets out the aims and form of this report.It indicates why the Commission concerns itself only with the protection of man and only with ionising radiation.A list of the Publications of the Commission is given in Annex D. 1 .l.The History of the Commission (3) The International Commission on Radiological Protection, hereafter called the Commission, was established in 1928, with the name of the International X ray and Radium Protection Committee, following a decision by the Second International Congress of Radiology.In 1950 it was restructured and renamed.The Commission still retains a special relationship with the four-yearly Congress meetings and with the International Society of Radiology but, over the years, has greatly broadened its interests to take account of the increasing uses of ionising radiation and of practices that involve the generation of radiation and radioactive materials.(4) The Commission works closely with its sister body, the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements, and has official relationships with the World Health Organisation and the International Atomic Energy Agency.It also has important relationships with the International Labour Organisation and other United Nations bodies, including the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and the United Nations Environment Programme, and with the Commission of the European Communities, the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Standards Organisation, the International Electrotechnical Commission, and the International Radiation Protection Association.It takes account of progress reported by major national organisations.(5) The Commission issued its first report in 1928.The first report in the current
Source: Annals of the ICRP
Language: English
Topic: Radiation Dose and Imaging
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4231348715