Radiation Safety (Radiation Safety Standards) Notice 2021 (Queensland)

Table of Contents

1. Source documents

  • Official PDF retained locally — current as at 1 September 2021; retrieved 16 September 2026.
  • Extracted text
  • Provenance and SHA-256 metadata

2. Authority and jurisdiction

  • Queensland subordinate legislation made under s 16 of the Radiation Safety Act 1999.
  • The Notice identifies documents that are radiation safety standards for the Act. It is the formal legal bridge between the Act and the named Queensland standards.

3. Key takeaways

  • Section 3 and Schedule 1 make five 2021 Queensland documents radiation safety standards under the Act.
  • For radiation therapy, the Standard for premises—ionising radiation sources is a principal statutory standard for bunker design, shielding and premises compliance.
  • The medical-imaging apparatus standard may apply to imaging apparatus used within the radiation-therapy pathway, depending on the apparatus and practice.
  • A standard listed here is not merely guidance: legal duties concerning compliance and certificates arise through the Act and related instruments.
  • The premises standard is now retained in the local corpus with a dedicated summary. The medical-imaging apparatus standard remains to be acquired and summarised.

4. Summary

4.1. Sections 1–2 — Title and commencement

  • Names the Notice and provides its commencement arrangements.

4.2. Section 3 — Radiation safety standards

  • Declares the documents in Schedule 1 to be radiation safety standards for s 16 of the Act.

4.3. Section 4 — Inspection

  • Provides for public inspection of the standards.

4.4. Schedule 1 — Listed standards

  1. Standard for ionising radiation apparatus—medical imaging (2021).
  2. Standard for non-ionising radiation apparatus—medical and cosmetic procedures (2021).
  3. Standard for premises—ionising radiation sources (2021).
  4. Standard for premises—non-ionising radiation apparatus (2021).
  5. Standard for radiation sources—industrial, mining, manufacturing and other practices (2021).

5. Important definitions, roles, limits and records

Radiation safety standard
A document given statutory status through s 16 of the Act and this Notice.
Certificate of compliance
The Act requires prescribed sources or premises to be assessed against the applicable standard and to hold a current certificate where required.
(no term)
The Notice contains no clinical dose limit or QA tolerance itself; substantive requirements are in the listed standards and their enabling legislation.
(no term)
Compliance certificates, assessment reports and records of relevant modifications are evidence that statutory premises or apparatus requirements remain satisfied.

6. Practical relationship to the THHS RSPP

  • Explains why the RSPP treats compliant premises and applicable compliant apparatus as mandatory controls.
  • Supports local controls for shielding, access restriction, warning systems, interlocks, reassessment after relevant changes and retention of certificates.
  • The exact technical requirements must be taken from the applicable standard, not inferred from this short Notice.

7. See Also