Recommendations on good practices in the field of workers radiation protection in the perspective of lowering of the legal limitation of the equivalent dose for the eyes lens

As international bodies (ICRP, IAEA) have proposed or accepted a reduction of the equivalent dose limitation for the eyes crystalline lens for workers in situations of planned exposures, this report by the IRSN is an answer to a request made by the ASN for an opinion on expected good practices in terms of radiation protection of workers, particularly within the framework of interventional radiology and in operating rooms where these interventional actions occur. After having recalled the historical context and outlined the differences between different published data, the report identifies professional activities at risk (general aspects, case of interventional radiology, case of brachytherapy, nuclear medicine and medical research, case of industrial activities). It describes the characteristics of good practices in radiation protection in these different environments (general, interventional radiology, and so on) in order to protect workers or to optimise individual exposure. The next part addresses the issue of dose control: choice of dosimetric quantity, ways to assess lens exposure. A set of recommendations is then proposed