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Radiation Safety Regulations for USER ACCESS
Access to the experimental hall, the beamlines and experimental stations will only be granted when the following conditions are fulfilled:
1. A valid Radiation Protection Delimitation Contract (RPDC) of your home institution with HZB exists,
- check here, if your institute already has a valid RPDC
- here you can find a German and English templates for an RPDC. Fill the required fields and send us 2 copies of the signed document.
2a. German Institutes must have a valid §15 StrSchV Approval
- A §15 Approval authorizes your institution for allowing employees to work in external control areas as radiation workers. The authority responsible for granting this approval depends on the country. In general it is your local authority for occupational health and safety.
Please send a copy of your institutes §15 StrSchV Approval to the HZB radiation safety department.
2b. Foreign Institutes will have to prove a similar legal situation as with the German §15 Approval.
- If users from foreign institutes have a personal radiation pass, HZB will assume, that their home institute has the allowance to send their employers as radiation workers abroad.
- If radiation passes are not used in your country, HZB needs a letter of confirmation, that your home institute has the legal allowance to send their employees as radiation workers abroad and that these employees are registered radiation workers category B (<6mSv/a).
3. You have to present your Personal Radiation Passport (Strahlenpass) to the HZB radiation safety department.
- Radiation passports can be registered in general at the same authority like the §15 approval.
- fax the cover page and the page with the latest registered doses to the radiation safety department at least 3 weeks in advance of the beamtime
- you will have to show your personal radiation pass at the users office
Involve the radiation safety officer of your institute, he is the person who knows the local details.Please note that for administrative reasons you will receive a notification of your registered dose received while working at BESSY II only in case a countable dose (>0mSv/a) has been registered. Your radiation safety officer may contact the BESSY II radiation safety office in case of questions.
Start the procedure concerning the radiation safety requirements NOW! It might take longer than you expect!
Information for SHORT TERM USERS
The 7-DAYS SHORT TERM ACCESS REGULATION is suspended from Oct. 22, 2012 onwards. Short term users will have to fulfill the same stringent requirements as the long term users. Otherwise no access to the experimental hall can be granted.
Information for SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL
The 7-DAYS SHORT TERM ACCESS REGULATION is suspended from Oct. 22, onwards. Service and Maintenance personnel will have to fulfill the same stringent requirements as the long term users. Otherwise no access to the experimental hall can be granted when BESSY II is in operation.
Access during BESSY II off-times will be possible. Please arrange suitable time slots with your local contact.
Information for VISITORS
According to the German Radiation Protection Ordinance (2011) NO EXCEPTION REGULATIONS FOR VISITORS can be applied after Oct. 21, 2012. Visitors will have to fulfill the same requirements as users, otherwise no access to the experimental hall can be granted!
SIGHTSEEING TOURS to our Laboratory will only be possible in the sparse timeslots, when the BESSY II accelerator complex is not in operation. Please contact the communications/visitors service if scheduling of your visit will be possible!
