Contribution to discussion from Australia

In accordance with a request arising from the Meeting of the IRPA Publications Commission on 20 September 2000, a workshop forum was held by the Australasian Radiation Protection Society (ARPS) on 18 September 2001, at its 26. annual conference, to canvass the views of members on the proposed development of new ICRP Recommendations. The following report is based on this forum and on other views expressed by ARPS members who were unable to attend the forum, and has been confirmed by the ARPS Executive Committee. It is recognised that the ICRP's thinking on its recommendations and associated matters is changing all the time and that the most up-to-date position on some matters may not be known to ARPS members. Therefore, comments are based on the position expressed by the ICRP in a paper entitled A Report on Progress towards New Recommendations, published in the Journal of Radiological Protection, 21 (2001) pp.113-123, accepting that this position may by now be out of date