Contribution of the St-Petersburg Institute of radiation hygiene to the practical activities of Russian sanitary-epidemiological facilities

Abstract

In 2020 Federal Service for surveillance on consumer rights protection and human well-being organizes a series of events devoted to the 100th anniversary of the day of establishment of the state sanitary-epidemiological service of Russia. St-Petersburg research institute of radiation hygiene, as other scientific-practical institutions of the Rospotrebnadzor, summarizes its contribution to practical activities in the field of radiation hygiene. Since the foundation of the Institute in December 1956 and up to current time the results of the research on many aspects of this significantly young discipline formed the basis for the development of one of the main problems of radiation hygiene – protection of the public health from hazardous effects of ionizing exposure. One of the important practical aspects of the performed research in the assistance to the institutions providing sanitary surveillance on the radiation safety on the territories of the USSR and regions of the Russian Federation.

Keywords

• radiation hygiene
• sources of ionizing exposure
• radiation safety of the public
• radiological groups
• sanitary-epidemiological stations, regulations
• state sanitary-epidemiolocal surveillance on the radiation safety