The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council considered ‘diseases induced by ionising and non-ionising radiation’ and made a number of recommendations that were accepted by government.  IIAC said that the diseases prescribed in relation to ionising radiation should be leukaemia, and cancers of the bone, female breast, testis and thyroid. It added that each of these cancers should only be prescribed for doses of ionising radiation sufficient to double the risk of its occurrence. IIAC also recommend that no form of skin cancer should be prescribed in relation to ultraviolet radiation. The changes took effect in July 2000.

Diseases induced by Ionising and Non-Ionising Radiation, Cm 4280, IIAC, March 1999 [pre-2000 IIAC papers are not available online].