Information about the impact of X-ray laboratories on human health and the environment

Krakow, January 2025

Information on the impact of the activities performed by the organizational unit consisting in the launch of an X-ray laboratory and the launch and use of X-ray devices on human health and the environment

Based on Article 32c, paragraph 2 of the Atomic Law Act (Journal of Laws of 2024, item 1277), I hereby inform that in the organizational unit:

Zakopianka Dental Center
Medclinik sp. z o. o.
Zakopiańska Street 62
30-418 Kraków

The organizational unit has the permit required by law to open a medical X-ray laboratory and to start and use X-ray machines issued by the State Provincial Sanitary Inspector in Kraków No. 1/17/2023 of January 30, 2023 and 2/17/2023 of January 30, 2023.

Pursuant to Article 17, Section 1 of the Atomic Energy Law, in order to adapt the risk assessment method to its expected level, the organizational unit's employees were classified in exposure category B. Employee exposure assessment is conducted based on individual dosimetry to determine whether employees have been correctly classified in this category.

Over the last 12 months, no dose limits specified for employees have been exceeded.

The measurements of the ionizing X-ray dose rate distribution around the X-ray apparatus confirmed that the structure of walls, ceilings, windows, doors and the installed protective devices in the X-ray room protect working persons, members of the general public staying in the vicinity, and also members of the general public in the case of an X-ray room located in a residential building against receiving doses specified in § 2 and § 3 paragraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Health of 21 August 2006 (Journal of Laws No. 180, item 1325) during the year.

The head of the organisational unit shall ensure that activities involving exposure are carried out in accordance with the principle of optimisation, which requires that – with reasonable consideration of economic and social factors and the current state of technical knowledge – the number of exposed employees and members of the general public and the probability of their exposure are as low as possible, and the doses of ionising radiation they receive are as low as possible.

Based on the above information, it is concluded that the activities in the past 12 months did not have a negative impact on human health or the environment.

In connection with the above-described activities, no radioactive substances are released into the environment.

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head of the organizational unit