New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Chapter I - Industrial Board Of Appeals
Subchapter A - The Industrial Code
Part 38 - Ionizing Radiation Protection
Section 38.0 - Finding of fact

The commissioner finds that every industry, trade, occupation and process involving the use or presence of radioactive material or radiation-producing equipment involves elements of danger to the lives, health and safety of persons employed or present therein. The commissioner further finds that special regulations are necessary for the protection of such persons, in that such material and equipment may emit invisible and imperceptible rays or particles having the property of producing deleterious or fatal effects, immediate or deferred, upon and within the human body.