The responsibilities and duties of the medical physicist is described in a number of South African laws and regulations. The Hazardous Substances Act, (Act 15 of 1973) and the regulations referring to this Act, describe specific accountabilities and involvement of the medical physicist in the application and regulation of hazardous substances, e.g., ionising radiation and LASER-beams in the hospital. The “Regulations defining the scope of the profession of medical physicist”, were published as Regulation No R310 of 26 February 1988 in terms of section 33(1) of the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Act, 1974 (Act 56 of 1974).
Responsibilities of a medical physicist
in Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Oncology, Radiation Protection and Radiology are as follows: