This document provides guidelines and performance criteria for sampling airborne radioactive substances in the workplace. Emphasis is on health protection of workers in the indoor environment.

This document provides best practices and performance-based criteria for the use of air sampling devices and systems, including retrospective samplers and continuous air monitors. Specifically, this document covers air sampling program objectives, design of air sampling and monitoring programs to meet program objectives, methods for air sampling and monitoring in the workplace, and quality assurance to ensure system performance toward protecting workers against unnecessary inhalation exposures.

Cross References:
ISO 11929
ICRP 72:1996
IAEA 115:1975
ISO 2889
ISO 26802
HPS N13.56:2012
ISO 17873
ICRP 66:1994
ICRP 103:2007
ISO 20553


Incorporates the following:
Corrigendum, July 2019