The document summarizes the IAEA safety standards. It describes the hierarchy of standards, which includes safety fundamentals, requirements, and guides. The standards are developed through an open process involving IAEA committees and member state representatives. The standards are based on recommendations from UNSCEAR on radiation health effects and ICRP on radiation protection. Historically, the IAEA has published standards since the 1950s to help ensure the safe use of nuclear technology and protection of people and the environment from radiation.

1. IAEA SAFETY STANDARDS
IBRAHIM,M MUHYDEEN
Department Of Radiological Safety
Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority

2. Preface
“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
(IAEA)

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

4. Contents
 IAEA Statute
 Introduction
 Hierarchy
 Safety standard structure
 Development process for the safety
standards
 Categorization
 Scientific Basis of safety standards
 Historical perspective
 Conclusion.

5. IAEA Statute
 “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. Introduction
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. Introduction cont.................
 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.

8. Hierarchy

9. Hierarchy
• 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 steps.

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

11. Hierarchy cont....
 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

12. Safety Standard Structure

13. Development process for the
. safety standards
The preparation and review of the safety
standards involves the IAEA
Secretariat and four safety standards committees,
nuclear safety (NUSSC),radiation safety (RASSC),
the safety of radioactive waste (WASSC) and the
safe transport of radioactive material (TRANSSC),
and a Commission on Safety Standards (CSS)
which oversees the IAEA safety standards
programme includes senior governmental officials
having responsibility for establishing the safety
standards.

14. Development process for the
. safety standards
. A management
system has been
established for the
processes of planning,
developing, reviewing,
revising and
establishing the IAEA
safety standards It
articulates the
mandate of the IAEA,
the vision for the future
application of the
safety standards,
policies and strategies,
and corresponding
functions and
responsibilities.

15. Categorizations
 The main thrust of the structure is the
integration of
◦ General Safety Requirements in seven
parts.(Thematic areas)
◦ complemented by a set of six Specific
Safety Requirements applicable to all
Facilities and activities.

16. Safety Standard
Structure

17. Scientific Basis of safety
standards
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)

18. Scientific Basis of safety
standards
ICRP
Principle
Recommendation
UNSCEAR
Effects
IAEA
Standards

19. Historical perspective
 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

20. Historical perspective
 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.

21. Historical perspective
 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.

22. Historical perspective
 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.

23. Conclusion
 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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