Education and Training in Occupational Radiation Protection in Lithuania

Radiation Protection Centre (RPC) is a regulatory authority that plays very important role not only in Radiation Protection Supervision and Control, but also in creation of Radiation Protection Training (RPT) system in Lithuania. The Law on Radiation Protection is one of the main legal documents in Lithuania, regulating the requirements for persons, who have to be educated and trained in radiation protection. Regarding to the mentioned Law, on 22 November 2011 there was adopted an Order of the Minister of Health (Order No. 1001 On the Approval of Compulsory Radiation Protection Training and Instruction Procedure). On this Order there are determined the requirements for: persons, who have to be trained in radiation protection; for persons, who want to become lecturers; for training programmes and for the institutions, which want to provide the radiation protection training. According to this Order, the persons, working with ionizing radiation sources, also the persons, who might deal with the ionizing radiation sources on their work and the persons, responsible for radiation protection at their working facilities, have to be trained by initial training programmes before they start work and have to be retrained every five years by the refresher training programmes to renew their knowledge. (author)