{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiations-outside-workers-regulations-1993/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiations-outside-workers-regulations-1993/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2379",
  "legislation_title": "The Ionising Radiations (Outside Workers) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiations-outside-workers-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Duties of the operator",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of an operator who has an outside worker undertaking activities in any controlled area under his control, before the commencement of those activities—\n(a) to make suitable arrangements to provide the outside undertaking with the information referred to in regulation 4(1)(a);\n(b) to take all reasonable steps to ensure by reference to the radiation passbook or by other means that the outside worker—\n(i) has received any specific training required for the activities,\n(ii) is medically fit to undertake the activities, and\n(iii) has been provided with and has been trained to use any personal protective equipment that may be necessary for the safe performance of the activities.\n(2) It shall be the duty of the operator to ensure that—\n(a) the outside worker receives individual exposure monitoring, appropriate to the nature of the activities;\n(b) an estimate of the dose received by the outside worker is made; and\n(c) the radiation passbook is made available to the outside worker at his request.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), as soon as is reasonably practicable after the activities referred to in paragraph (1) have been completed, it shall be the duty of the operator to ensure that an estimate of the dose received by the outside worker is entered into the radiation passbook of the outside worker.\n(4) In a case where the operator no longer has access to the passbook of the outside worker when the information required by paragraph (3) becomes available to him, he shall forthwith give that information to the outside undertaking.\n(5) The duty imposed on the operator under paragraph (3) to ensure than an estimate of the dose received by the outside worker is entered into the passbook of the outside worker when the activities have been completed, shall not apply in any case where having regard to—\n(a) the nature and duration of the activities undertaken in the controlled areas under the control of the operator; and\n(b) the pattern of past and present activities undertaken by the outside worker and the estimates of the dose previously received entered in the passbook,\nand after consulting the outside undertaking, the operator, with the agreement of the outside undertaking, is satisfied that the outside worker will be most unlikely to receive in the month in which the activities are undertaken a radiation dose which exceeds one thirty-sixth part of any annual dose limit for that worker and in such a case the operator shall enter a cumulative estimate of the dose received each month.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2379/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:50:14.961861+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}