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<p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) holds a national dose register of classified
radiation workers known as the Central Index of Dosage Information (CIDI). This register
is maintained in accordance with the Council Directive 2013/59 Euratom, replacing
earlier directives, including 96/29/Euratom. The definition of a classified radiation
worker is a person who works with ionising radiation and who could be exposed to higher
levels of ionising radiation during normal work and also under certain accident conditions.
It is designated Approved Dosimetry Services (ADS’s), approved by HSE, that submit
this radiation exposure information annually to CIDI.</p><p>The CIDI is only accessible
by three authorised HSE personnel. Only ADS’s may request information for medical
surveillance purposes (e.g. if a classified worker moves employer) and these requests
are considered on a case-by-case basis. Only authorised persons within an ADS are
able to submit annual returns to the CIDI database via a secure password protected
portal and cannot access data held within the database itself.</p><p>Atomic Nuclear
weapons testing by the UK took place before the establishment of CIDI. Therefore,
CIDI does not contain any radiation exposure data for service personnel who may have
been exposed to ionising radiation as a result of nuclear testing at the time.</p>
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