HSE, Central Index of Dose Information for 1998

TABLE B1

Summary of mean dose (EDE + CEDE) distribution by sex for year 1998

Occupational category	Males			Females
Occupational category	Number		Mean dose	Number		Mean dose
Industrial radiography - permanent	1242	(3%)	0.6	26	(1%)	0.1
Industrial radiography - site	2234	(6%)	0.7	22	(1%)	0.3
Reactor operations	3509	(9%)	1.1	100	(4%)	0.9
Reactor maintenance	7889	(20%)	0.5	126	(5%)	0.2
Fuel fabrication	2800	(7%)	0.7	181	(7%)	0.3
Fuel reprocessing	3329	(9%)	1.2	392	(14%)	0.7
Waste treatment	1175	(3%)	0.6	116	(4%)	0.5
Radiation protection	1438	(4%)	0.7	186	(7%)	0.7
Luminising	1	(0%)	0.1	0	(0%)	0.0
Application + servicing	1316	(3%)	0.3	51	(2%)	0.1
Application + manipulation	1212	(3%)	0.8	346	(13%)	0.6
Transport work	136	(0%)	1.0	3	(0%)	0.3
Offshore work	835	(2%)	0.1	15	(1%)	0.2
Onshore drilling	99	(0%)	0.1	1	(0%)	0.0
Coal mining surface	3	(0%)	0.0	0	(0%)	0.0
Other mining underground	64	(0%)	12.5	0	(0%)	0.0
Other mining surface	3	(0%)	0.1	0	(0%)	0.0
Dental work	2	(0%)	0.1	1	(0%)	0.0
Veterinary work	81	(0%)	0.1	121	(4%)	0.1
Medical - doctors	12	(0%)	0.4	19	(1%)	0.4
Medical - nurses	0	(0%)	0.0	5	(0%)	0.6
Medical radiography	30	(0%)	0.1	22	(1%)	0.4
Medical physics	22	(0%)	0.4	4	(0%)	0.8
Medical - other	52	(0%)	0.8	31	(1%)	0.7
Quarrying	6	(0%)	0.1	1	(0%)	0.9
Academic research + teaching	629	(2%)	0.2	132	(5%)	0.0
Industrial research + teaching	1083	(3%)	0.3	161	(6%)	0.3
Defence - other	3	(0%)	0.1	0	(0%)	0.0
Nuclear industrial - other	3884	(10%)	0.8	273	(10%)	0.4
Other industrial	1711	(4%)	0.3	143	(5%)	0.2
Others	2595	(7%)	0.2	229	(8%)	0.1
Nuclear decommission	1159	(3%)	0.8	34	(1%)	0.4
Total all workers	38554		0.7	2741		0.4

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TABLE B2

Distribution of male workers by age for year 1998

Occupational category												Total
	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65
	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65
Industrial radiography - permanent	5	44	101	146	193	209	193	176	115	50	10	1242
Industrial radiography - site	15	131	256	305	354	414	325	212	143	74	5	2234
Reactor operations	5	56	183	438	586	626	601	634	296	69	15	3509
Reactor maintenance	29	251	591	991	1304	1287	1373	1116	648	265	34	7889
Fuel fabrication	37	103	227	335	466	493	420	432	196	71	20	2800
Fuel reprocessing	0	163	336	551	556	552	481	422	204	59	5	3329
Waste treatment	1	64	126	188	237	199	146	115	76	21	2	1175
Radiation protection	0	24	87	193	258	263	248	200	106	49	10	1438
Luminising	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Application + servicing	4	63	134	219	229	198	144	155	98	53	19	1316
Application + manipulation	1	42	167	181	192	185	177	130	92	40	5	1212
Transport work	0	7	5	16	16	19	21	28	18	6	0	136
offshore work	0	88	181	186	146	126	66	31	6	4	1	835
onshore drilling	0	11	18	25	21	9	8	4	1	2	0	99
Coal mining surface	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
other mining undgrd.	0	0	1	9	12	16	11	5	8	2	0	64
other mining surface	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Dental work	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Veterinary work	1	1	3	10	13	13	14	12	7	5	2	81
Medical - doctors	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	2	3	0	12
Medical - nurses	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Medical radiography	0	0	0	0	6	9	10	1	2	2	0	30
Medical physics	0	1	1	7	6	3	2	2	0	0	0	22
Medical - other	0	0	3	6	7	7	10	11	6	2	0	52
Quarrying	0	0	1	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	6
Academic research + teaching	0	25	76	82	81	79	73	78	74	53	8	629
Industrial research + teaching	0	13	101	156	177	178	155	138	78	81	6	1083
Defence - other	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
Nuclear ind - other	59	213	408	546	631	523	532	456	324	152	40	3884
other industrial	10	112	153	196	249	267	237	253	143	76	15	1711
Others	15	126	262	330	405	355	396	380	210	101	15	2595
Nuclear decommission	6	42	116	136	197	185	174	181	93	25	4	1159
Totals	188	1581	3540	5255	6347	6219	5820	5177	2946	1265	216	38554

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TABLE B3

Distribution of female workers by age for year 1998

Occupational category	Age group (years)												Total
	0	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65
	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65
Industrial radiography - permanent	0	0	1	5	5	6	3	3	2	1	0	0	26
Industrial radiography - site	0	1	3	5	3	2	4	3	1	0	0	0	22
Reactor operations	0	0	6	16	18	22	13	6	13	5	1	0	100
Reactor maintenance	0	1	11	26	39	11	10	10	9	6	3	0	126
Fuel fabrication	0	3	22	29	44	25	29	13	13	3	0	0	181
Fuel reprocessing	0	0	40	102	103	56	33	21	29	8	0	0	392
Waste treatment	0	0	8	23	24	16	13	18	11	2	1	0	116
Radiation protection	0	1	11	39	45	24	23	21	12	8	2	0	186
Luminising	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Application + servicing	0	0	6	11	7	7	7	2	6	2	3	0	51
Application + manipulation	0	0	26	57	75	45	38	27	39	30	9	0	346
Transport work	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
offshore work	0	0	2	11	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15
onshore drilling	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Coal mining surface	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
other mining undgrd.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
other mining surface	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dental work	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Veterinary work	0	7	30	23	23	17	13	5	2	1	0	0	121
Medical - doctors	0	0	0	1	3	3	0	2	7	3	0	0	19
Medical - nurses	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	5
Medical radiography	0	0	0	2	2	3	3	2	4	5	1	0	22
Medical physics	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	4
Medical - other	0	0	5	7	9	3	4	1	0	2	0	0	31
Quarrying	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Academic research + teaching	0	0	10	31	37	17	14	16	5	1	1	0	132
Industrial research + teaching	0	0	9	33	35	25	17	9	15	15	3	0	161
Defence - other	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nuclear ind ustrial - other	0	1	27	55	70	40	35	21	12	10	2	0	273
other industrial	0	1	13	20	19	30	28	16	7	5	3	1	143
Others	0	3	24	46	49	43	21	13	18	10	2	0	229
Nuclear decommission	0	0	2	6	8	8	3	6	1	0	0	0	34
Totals	0	18	258	549	623	406	311	219	208	117	31	1	2741

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TABLE B4

Distribution of mean doses (EDE + CEDE) for male workers by age for year 1998

Occupational category	Age group (years)												Total
	0	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65
	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65
Industrial radiography - permanent	0.0	0.3	0.7	0.9	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.6
Industrial radiography - site	0.0	1.1	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.6	0.9	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.7
Reactor operations	0.0	1.0	1.8	1.4	1.2	1.0	1.1	1.0	1.0	1.2	0.9	1.3	1.1
Reactor maintenance	0.0	0.1	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.5
Fuel fabrication	0.0	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.1	0.7
Fuel reprocessing	0.0	0.0	1.1	1.1	1.0	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.4	0.6	0.2	1.2
Waste treatment	0.0	0.0	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.3	0.6
Radiation protection	0.0	0.0	1.6	0.6	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.6	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.7
Luminising	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Application + servicing	0.0	0.2	0.7	0.1	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.6	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.3
Application + manipulation	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.7	0.6	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.0	0.8
Transport work	0.0	0.0	0.9	2.0	2.0	0.5	0.5	0.3	1.3	1.0	0.4	0.0	1.0
offshore work	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.1
onshore drilling	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Coal mining surface	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
other mining underground	0.0	0.0	0.0	15.5	13.0	10.8	12.8	14.6	12.4	10.7	10.5	0.0	12.5
other mining surface	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Dental work	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Veterinary work	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.1
Medical - doctors	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.0	0.4
Medical - nurses	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Medical radiography	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1
Medical physics	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.1	0.9	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4
Medical - other	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.4	1.0	0.2	0.4	2.1	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.8
Quarrying	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Academic research + teaching	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.2	0.3	0.0	0.2
Industrial research + teaching	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.3
Defence - other	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Nuclear industrial- other	0.0	0.8	1.0	0.8	1.0	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.1	0.8
other industrial	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.0	0.3
Others	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2
Nuclear decommission	0.0	1.5	1.2	0.9	1.1	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.4	0.9	0.7	0.0	0.8
Totals	0.0	0.5	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.7

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TABLE B5

Distribution of mean doses (EDE + CEDE) for female workers by age for year 1998

Occupational category	Dose range (mSv)
	0	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65	Total
	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65		Total
Industrial radiography - permanent	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1
Industrial radiography - site	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.3	0.7	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3
Reactor operations	0.0	0.0	0.1	1.4	0.8	0.6	1.1	0.3	1.0	1.0	0.7	0.0	0.9
Reactor maintenance	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.2
Fuel fabrication	0.0	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.3
Fuel reprocessing	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.8	1.3	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.7
Waste treatment	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.7	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.5
Radiation protection	0.0	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.9	0.6	0.8	1.3	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.7
Luminising	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Application + servicing	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Application + manipulation	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.8	1.0	1.3	0.0	0.6
Transport work	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3
Offshore work	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2
Onshore drilling	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Coal mining surface	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other mining underground	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other mining surface	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Dental work	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Veterinary work	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.0	2.9	0.0	0.0	0.1
Medical - doctors	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.9	0.3	0.0	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.4
Medical - nurses	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0	1.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.6
Medical - radiography	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.5	0.0	0.2	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.4
Medical - physics	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.6	1.2	0.0	0.0	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.8
Medical - other	0.0	0.0	0.3	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.9	0.0	0.0	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.7
Quarrying	0.0	0.0	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.9
Academic research + teaching	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Industrial research + teaching	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.3
Defence - other	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nuclear industrial - other	0.0	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.4	0.6	0.0	0.4
Other industrial	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.0	0.2
Others	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.7	0.0	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1
Nuclear decommission	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.6	0.6	1.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4
Totals	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.0	0.4