About the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz
Federal Office for Radiation Protection - Responsibility for Man and Environment
Our Guiding Principles describe the principles and objectives of the work of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) that have been worked out and sustained by its employees. They provide orientation and help to reach determined goals. They describe our tasks and principles. The Guiding Principles formulate rules for the structuring of the organisation as well as for the contact with each other and with external partners.
We work for the safety and protection of man and the environment against damage due to ionising and non-ionising radiation. The field of ionising radiation includes, e.g., X-ray diagnosis in medicine, safety in the use of radioactive materials, among others in nuclear technology and the protection against enhanced natural radioactivity. Among the fields of work in the area of non-ionising radiation are the protection against UV radiation and the effects of mobile communication technology, precautionary protection of the population, employees in the working world and patients in the medical field being of decisive significance. Important part of radiation protection precaution are our continuous measurements of radioactivity in the environment. Our fields of responsibility are radiological health protection, environmental and physico-technical radiation protection, radiological emergency management, nuclear safety, the federal custody of nuclear fuels, the management (disposal) of radioactive waste as well as the safety of transport and storage of nuclear fuels.
We pay attention to questions and concerns of the public.
We support the dialogue and within the scope of active public relations work we provide information without delay in a competent and comprehensible way with the objective to inspire confidence in our work.
The continuously developing state-of-the-art of science and technology regarding the protection against radiation risks is the subject, standard and motivation for our work. On this basis we recommend measures and regulations which serve precaution and protection of the population.
Beyond our legal tasks we understand ourselves as service-provider for the public, federal ministries, science, industry and commerce, the medical field, public administration, media and associations. For our superior authority, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, we prepare scientific expert recommendations and assist it in developing legal provisions.
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