The Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety —30 years of international coordination of radiation protection and safety matters
The Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety (IACRS) was constituted in 1990, as a forum for
collaboration and coordination between international bodies with regards to radiation safety. It
consists today of representatives of eight intergovernmental member organizations (the European
Commision, Food and Agriculture Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
International Labour Office, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/ Nuclear Energy
Agency (OECD/NEA), Pan American Health Organization, United Nations Scientific Committee on the
Effects of Atomic Radiation and the World Health Organization) and five observer non-governmental
organizations (International Commission on Radiological Protection, International Commission on
Radiation Units& Measurements, International Electrotechnical Commission, International Radiation
Protection Association and International Organization for Standardization). The IACRS provides a
platform for interaction b...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - Category: Physics Authors: Stefan Mundigl, Carl Blackburn, Miroslav Pinak, Tony Colgan, Christopher Clement, Thomas Otto, Miroslav Voytchev, Shengli Niu, Roger Coates, Bernard Le Guen, Alain Rannou, Edward Lazo, Jacqueline Garnier-Laplace, Pablo Jimenez, Borislava Batandjieva-Metca Source Type: research
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