ISO 14146:2000 PDF

The quality of a supplier of a personal-dosimetry service (referred to in this text as a “processor”) depends on both the characteristics of the approved (type-tested) dosimetry system¹⁾ and the training and experience of the staff, together with the calibration procedures and quality assurance programmes.

This International Standard specifies the criteria and the test procedures to be used for the periodic verification of the performance of personal-dosemeter processors.

The performance verification may be carried out as a part of the approval procedure for the personal-dosimetry system or as an independent check to verify that the processor fulfils the performance requirements specified in an International Standard.

This International Standard applies to personal dosemeters for the assessment of external photon radiation with an energy between 10 keV and 9 MeV.

It covers all types of personal dosemeter needing laboratory processing (e.g. photographic-film, thermoluminescent or radiophotoluminescent dosemeters) and involving continuous measurements or measurements repeated regularly at fixed time intervals (e.g. several weeks, one month).

1) If this International Standard is applied to a dosimetry system for which no approval (pattern or type test) has been provided, then in the following text approval or type test should be read as the technical data sheet provided by the manufacturer or as the data sheet required by the regulatory authority.