Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 (No. 115) - Denmark (Ratification: 1974)

Further to its observation, the Committee would draw the Government’s attention to the following point.

The provision of alternative employment. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that the State Institute for Radiation Hygiene of the National Board of Health (SIS) registers the data on the total exposure to ionizing radiations of all workers recorded by dosimeters carried with the individual worker, and informs the worker concerned whether the threshold value is coming close. In this event, the SIS also gives advice to the worker to discontinue the work or employment involving a risk of exposure to ionizing radiation. With regard to external workers, that are workers employed with an employer performing work in a country of the European Union at places where there is a risk of exposure to ionizing radiations, they are obliged to hold a "radiation passport", issued by the SIS, which constitutes a prerequisite to start their employment in question. The SIS may refuse the issuing of this "radiation passport" if the worker concerned has already been subject to excessive exposure to ionizing radiations and has thus come close to the threshold limit. The Committee, taking due note of the information, again draws the Government’s attention to the explanations provided in paragraphs 28 to 34 and 35(d) of its 1992 general observation under the Convention, and requests the Government to indicate the measures taken or contemplated to provide the workers concerned with suitable alternative employment, or to maintain their income through social security measures or otherwise where continued assignment to work involving exposure to ionizing radiations is found to be medically inadvisable and therefore further exposure to radiation has been disapproved by the SIS.