Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 45 - RADIATION CONTROL
Subchapter 4 - STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION
Section 11-45-47 - Dose to an embryo/fetus
Current through February, 2024
(a) The licensee shall ensure that the dose to an embryo/fetus during the entire pregnancy, due to occupational exposure of a declared pregnant woman, does not exceed 0.5 rem (five millisieverts).
(b) The licensee shall make efforts to avoid substantial variation above a uniform monthly exposure rate to a declared pregnant woman so as to satisfy the limit in subsection (a).
(c) The dose to an embryo/fetus shall be taken as the sum of:
(d) If by the time the woman declares pregnancy to the licensee, the dose to the embryo/fetus has exceeded 0.45 rem (4.5 millisieverts), the licensee shall be deemed to be in compliance with subsection (a). if the additional dose to the embryo/fetus does not exceed 0.05 rem (0.50 millisieverts) during the remainder of the pregnancy.