Table 3-7 Dose Equivalent Limits and Controls

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Module 3: Radiation Limits and Administrative Control Levels

Instructor's Notes

Facility administrative control levels for general

EO1 State the purpose of

employees

administrative control levels.

The facility administrative control levels for workers

are lower than the DOE limits and are set to:

Ensure the DOE limits and control levels are not

exceeded.

Help reduce individual and total worker population

radiation dose (collective dose).

B. Dose Equivalent Limits and Administrative Control Levels

EO2 Identify the DOE

radiation dose limits and

facility administrative

controls levels.

Table 3-7

Dose Equivalent Limits and Controls

(Optional -- leave chart

blank and have student

DOE Dose

DOE

Facility

complete chart.)

Equivalent

Recommendations

Administrative

Limit

Control Level

rem/year

Whole body

facility-specific

Extremity

N/A

facility-specific

Skin & other

N/A

facility-specific

organs

Lens of the

N/A

facility-specific

eye

Member of the

0.1

N/A

facility-specific

public

Declared

0.5/gestation

N/A

facility-specific

pregnant

period

worker

NOTE: 1) The chart is based on limits and control levels for routine conditions. The

limits and control levels are also based on the sum of internal and external dose.

External dose is from sources outside the body. Internal dose is from sources inside

the body. 2) The internal dose reported in a given calendar year is actually the

projected dose the individual will receive over the next 50 years from intakes in that

calendar year. Radioactive material may be inhaled, ingested, or absorbed through the

skin or open wound.