Protective action means an intervention intended to avoid or reduce doses to members of the public in chronic or emergency exposure situations;
Protective action means an action taken by members of the public to protect themselves from radiation from an accident involving radioactive material. Protective action may include sheltering, evacuation, relocation, control of access, administration of a radioprotective drug, decontamination of persons, decontamination of land or property, or control of food or water.
Protective action has the meaning ascribed to that term in Section 7.2.1.
Examples of Protective action in a sentence
Whichever Party commences and prosecutes a Protective Action is designated the “Controlling Party” and the other Party is designated the “Non-Controlling Party.” Telix may allow its Affiliates or sublicensees to participate in any Protective Action.
In the event that, within [**] (or such shorter period as would be required to preserve an ability to bring a particular Protective Action) of Wilex or Telix being advised of an activity requiring notice under Section 7.1, Telix has not taken reasonable steps to commence and prosecute such a Protective Action, then Wilex shall have the right, but not the obligation, at Wxxxx’s expense, to commence and prosecute such Protective Action.
More Definitions of Protective action
Protective action means to take action to protect the client’s interests by:
Protective action has the meaning as set forth in Section 5.1(b).
Protective action means an action for the purposes of avoiding or reducing doses that might otherwise be received in an emergency exposure situation or an existing exposure situation;
Protective action shall have the meaning given to it in Section 9.2.1.
Protective action means an immediate short term response to control present danger observed at first contact with a family. Or at any time present danger is identified to manage the immediate threats to a child.
Protective action means an action or actions taken in order to prevent or reduce the exposure of emergency workers, members of the public, the environment or the contamination of property from ionising radiation in the event of a radiation emergency, and includes the provision of appropriate information to the public in accordance with regulations 21 and 22;
Protective action means an action for the purposes of avoiding or reducing doses that might otherwise be received in an emergency exposure situation or an existing exposure situation. The action may include:(i) early protective action - a protective action in the event of a nuclear or radiological emergency that can be implemented within days to weeks and still be effective such as relocation and longer-term restriction of the consumption of food potentially affected by contamination.(ii) mitigatory action – an immediate action by the operator or other party:(a) To reduce the potential for conditions to develop that would result in exposure or a release of radioactive material requiring emergency response actions on the site or off the site; or(b) To mitigate source conditions that may result in exposure or a release of radioactive material requiring emergency response actions on the site or off the site.(iii) urgent protective action - a protective action in the event of a nuclear or radiological emergency which must be taken promptly (usually within hours to a day) in order to be effective, and the effectiveness of which will be markedly reduced if it is delayed. Includes iodine thyroid blocking, evacuation, short term sheltering, actions to reduce inadvertent ingestion, decontamination of individuals and prevention of ingestion of food, milk or drinking water possibly with contamination. The urgent protective action is an urgent protective action taken before or shortly after a release of radioactive material, or an exposure, on the basis of the prevailing conditions to avoid or to minimize severe deterministic effects.