Dose information is provided to the worker to ensure that the recommended dose limit is not exceeded. The register also allows the radiation dose to the population to be determined. Personal monitoring makes it possible to ensure that the amount of radiation received by these people is less than the limits recommended by the Australian standard. By the continual wearing of monitors, it is possible to determine the annual dose received by each individual and to ensure that the recommended limits are not exceeded. Anybody who is likely to be exposed to radiation over a long period of time as a result of their work should be monitored.
Personal monitoring is useful for checking the adequacy of radiation protection.
It can be used for documenting the occupational doses of wearers, especially when the wearer is accidentally exposed, and to show inadequate or improper radiation protection practices. In some States, it may be obligatory for some occupations to wear monitors. At the end of each period, the monitors are returned to the Laboratory for processing and assessment of the doses recorded by them. The Dose Report which is issued lists the doses received by each monitor and the accumulated doses received in the last twelve month period for each wearer. All dose records are kept indefinitely by the Laboratory.