Where can students find up-to-date values for radiation weighting factors and tissue weighting factors?
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) is the Federal Government agency which is responsible for setting Australian radiation standards. The Australian standards set by ARPANSA can be found by reading the pdf document Radiation Protection Series No. 1 (RPS 1) at: www.arpansa.gov.au/Publications/codes/rps1.cfm Students should note that although RPS 1 (which is based on ICRP publication 60*) is still the basis of legislation in Victoria, ICRP publication 60 has been replaced by ICRP publication 103. The latter publication contains different radiation weighting factors and tissue weighting factors from the former publication. The Victorian Radiation Regulations 2007 define effective dose and equivalent dose using radiation and tissue weighting factors without specifying a source for the factors as they are considered, from a legal point of view, to be ‘terms of art’. As such, the radiation and tissue weighting factors that apply in Victoria are the most up
