Nationwide quality assurance and control of Italian personal dosimetry services

A working group (called ENEA-EDP, personal dosimetry experts) has been established in the framework of ENEA institutional tasks to assure the quality of Italian personal dosimetry services. The results are quite important as no official guidelines on the performance of personal dosimetry services have been established in Italy. The paper outlines the activity of the ENEA-EDP group and recalls the reliability evaluation criteria detailed in a different report. The paper also summarizes the procedures to be followed by the services, on a voluntary basis, in order to be listed among the 'officially' reliable ones. Results and comments of six test sessions for 51 services are also described. (author). 8 refs, 3 figs, 3 tabs