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 38.24 - Personnel monitoring
Universal Citation: 12 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 38.24
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) External radiation sources.
(1) Each person
who possesses any radiation source shall supply and require the proper use of
appropriate, calibrated and operable individual monitoring devices by:
(i) adults likely to receive, in one year
from sources external to the body, a dose in excess of 10 percent of the limits
in section
38.18(a)(1)
of this Part (rule);
(ii) minors
and declared pregnant women likely to receive, in one year from sources
external to the body, a dose in excess of 10 percent of any of the applicable
limits in section
38.18(g) or
(h) of this Part (rule); and
(iii) individuals entering a high or very
high radiation area.
(2)
A person supplying personnel monitoring devices to individuals as required by
this subdivision shall ensure that the individuals wear such devices as
follows:
(i) An individual monitoring device
used for monitoring the dose to the whole body shall be worn at the unshielded
location of the whole body likely to receive the highest exposure.
(ii) An individual monitoring device used for
monitoring the dose to an embryo/fetus of a declared pregnant woman, pursuant
to section
38.18(h)(1)
of this Part (rule), shall be located at the waist under any protective apron
worn by the woman.
(iii) An
individual monitoring device used for monitoring the eye dose equivalent shall
be located at the neck outside any protective apron worn by the individual, or
at an unshielded location closer to the eye.
(iv) An individual monitoring device used for
monitoring the dose to the extremities shall be worn on the extremity likely to
receive the highest exposure. The device shall be oriented to measure the
highest dose to the extremity being monitored.
(3) All personnel monitoring devices, except
for direct and indirect reading dosimeters and those dosimeters used to measure
the dose to any extremity, that require processing to determine the radiation
dose and which are supplied pursuant to this subdivision or to conditions
specified in a license or registration, shall be processed and evaluated by a
dosimetry processor:
(i) holding current
personnel dosimetry accreditation from the National Voluntary Laboratory
Accreditation Program (NVLAP) of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology; and
(ii) approved in
this accreditation process for the type of radiation or radiations included in
the NVLAP program that most closely approximate the type of radiation or
radiations for which the individual wearing the dosimeter is
monitored.
(b) Intake of radioactive material. Each licensee shall perform all appropriate measurements of those specified in section 38.18(d)(1) of this Part (rule) which will enable him/her to determine the occupational intake of radioactive material by and assess the committed effective dose equivalent to:
(1) adults likely to receive,
in one year, an intake in excess of 10 percent of the applicable ALI in
Appendix A-13, Table I, columns 1 and 2, infra; and
(2) minors and declared pregnant women likely
to receive, in one year, a committed effective dose equivalent in excess of
0.50 mSv (0.05 rem).
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