Government Relations Program
Purpose
The Health Physics Society Government Relations Program is a coordinated
effort to:
- Make the Society and its
members available to government entities as an educational resource for
issues related to radiation and radiation safety.
- Provide comments on proposed
legislative and regulatory actions that have an effect on the mission of
the Society.
- Be involved in the
legislative and regulatory process for issues that affect the profession
of health physics and the practice of radiation safety.
- Carry out the duties of the president and the Scientific and Public Issues Committee in the role
of serving as Society spokespersons for legislative and
regulatory issues.
Objectives
At
its meeting in Orlando, Florida, in February 2002, the Board of Directors
established the following objectives for the Government Relations Program:
- To work
to have legislation, regulations, and public policies based on current, sound
science and good practice in radiation safety.
- To have
the Society recognized by governmental entities as an independent,
professional, and expert source of information on radiation sciences and
radiation safety.
- To
carry out its activities in accordance with Article II, Section 3 of the Bylaws,
which requires the Society to carry out its activities in such a manner as to
be benevolent, educational, scientific, and without monetary profit to its
organizers or members.
The Government Relations Program works towards these objectives by
(1) having the Society take positions on legislation, regulations, and
policies, (2) conducting or supporting educational sessions for governmental
entities, and (3) helping Society members interact with governmental entities on
an individual basis without influence from the Society on the content of their
interaction.
