The aim of radiation protection standards is to make the radiation workplace as safe as is humanly possible. Therefore, individual organs are limited to dose equivalents low enough to ensure that the dose threshold values are not exceeded.

Assisted by: G. Keller, J.F. Meissner, O. Messerschmidt, H. Mönig, H. Muth, C. Streffer, K.-R. Trott
Foreword by: Luther W. Brady, Martin W. Donner, Hans-Peter Heilmann, Friedrich Heuck