Code of practice for the safe use of industrial

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CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE SAFE USE OF INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT (1989)

RADIATION HEALTH SERIES No. 31

Approved at the 108th Session of the National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra, November 1989

Published by the Australian Radiation Laboratory on behalf of the National Health and Medical Research Council (December 1989)

© Commonwealth of Australia 1989

The objective of the National Health and Medical Research Council is to advise the Australian community on the achievement and maintenance of the highest practicable standards of individual and public health and to foster research in the interests of improving those standards.

PREFACE .......................................................................................................... V INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1 SECTION 1 GENERAL