Studies on the process organization in generic situation centers

Radiological situation centres serve to provide a professional assessment of radiologically relevant issues and a classification with regard to possible dangers and risks arising from ionising radiation. In order to enable the most efficient approach to this assessment, an appropriate organisation is required to avoid wasting resources through possible unnecessary duplication of work or the lack of an assessment due to inefficient communication and lack of task distribution. The aspects that are considered to be relevant and that are part of a professional assessment may differ depending on the particular event. This may involve an adjustment of the organisation and processes of the respective radiological situation centre. In many countries, certain event sequences are categorized in order to combine the relevance of technical aspects within a category. In the present report, among other things, the categorisation according to the reference scenarios and the available state of development of the general emergency plan of the Federation according to § 98 of the Radiation Protection Act was taken into account. On this basis, exemplary process organisation for a generic radiological situation centre was examined. The findings were summarised in a generic algorithm that can map the process structures and organisation of a radiological situation centre.