Regulation 6 Employer’s duties: establishment of general procedures, protocols and quality assurance programmesI1

those matters described in Schedule 2; and

any other matter in relation to which these Regulations mandate the establishment of procedures.

complies with the provisions of regulation 17(1); and

undertakes continuing education and training after qualification including, in the case of clinical use of new techniques, training related to those techniques and the relevant radiation protection requirements.

establish recommendations concerning referral guidelines for F1exposures to which these Regulations apply, including radiation doses, and ensure that these are available to the referrer;

establish quality assurance programmes for written procedures and written protocols;

regularly review and make available to an operator, diagnostic reference levels in respect of an exposure falling within—

regularly review and make available to an operator, dose reference levels in respect of radiotherapeutic procedures for typical localisation or verification exposures falling within regulation 3(1)(a), in which case, regard must be had to international and national dose reference levels and local dose surveys where available;

establish dose constraints F10for individual effective or equivalent doses over a defined appropriate time period —

conduct local dose surveys where practicable.