Guidance and regulation

Guidance on licencing and best use of radiopharmaceuticals and sealed radioactive sources in diagnosis, treatment or research.

• From: Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee
• Updated: 25 March 2024

Recognise and respond to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) incidents: guidance for healthcare professionals.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 31 May 2018

This report (HPA-RPD-033) is a radon atlas showing the bands of radon risk in each 1 kilometre grid square of England and Wales.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 1 November 2007

PHE's Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards provides radiological protection advice, services and training.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 31 July 2014

Handbooks (PHE-CRCE-018) for national and local authorities, radiation protection experts and others who may be affected by radiation incidents.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 5 June 2015

This report (PHE-CRCE-017) presents information about elevated radon potential in Northern Ireland as indicative maps.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 21 August 2015

This report (RCE-9) provides information on the health effects in the embryo or fetus following exposure to ionising radiation during pregnancy.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 1 March 2009

These documents include an introduction to lasers and laser safety and guidelines on the safety of hand-held laser pointers and laser pens.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 15 August 2017

This AGIR report (RCE-11) reviews the evidence of the effects of exposure to radon, and its decay products, on health.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 1 June 2009

NAIR provides assistance to the police and other emergency services where no radiation expert is otherwise available.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Updated: 9 April 2021

Report that provides an update on occupancy factors for UK homes, to better assess potential exposure from indoor radon.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 11 December 2018

Typical effective doses, equivalent periods of natural background radiation and lifetime fatal cancer risks from diagnostic medical exposures.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 4 September 2008

Information on depleted uranium (DU) including what it is, its uses, health effects and protection from exposure.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Updated: 17 December 2007

Information on protecting yourself from radiation, including how to remove radioactive contamination from yourself.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Updated: 30 November 2023

This report (PHE-CRCE-023) gives guidance on safe use of hand-held dental X-ray equipment in accordance with UK radiation protection legislation.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 9 February 2016

Comparison of doses from sources of exposure.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Updated: 18 March 2011

This handbook (NRPB-W7) is a technical guide for radiation specialists participating in NAIR.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 1 May 2002

Evaluation of the risks of exposure to ionising radiation in medical imaging examinations such as computed tomography scans (CT scans).

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 1 August 2014

Details of the national diagnostic reference levels (NDRLs), for clinicians using radiation in medicine.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Updated: 24 November 2022

Information about remediation extracted from the UK national radon database maintained by Public Health England.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 31 January 2019