Sec.19-24-6. Personnel monitoring

(a) (1) Each owner of an installation or mobile source shall supply appropriate personnel monitoring equipment to and shall require the use of such equipment by:

(A) Each employee and other individual who receives, or is likely to receive, a dose in any calendar quarter in excess of twenty-five per cent of the applicable value specified in subsection (a) of section 19-24-5;

(B) Each employee and any other individual who is under eighteen years of age who receives or is likely to receive a dose in any calendar quarter in excess of five per cent of the applicable value specified in said subsection (a);

(C) Each individual who enters a high radiation area.

(2) As used in sections 19-24-1 to 19-24-14, inclusive, "personnel monitoring equipment" means devices designed to be worn or carried by an individual for the purpose of measuring the dose received (e.g., film badges, pocket chambers, pocket dosimeters, film rings, etc.).

(b) Each owner of an installation or mobile source shall maintain records showing the radiation exposures of all individuals for whom personnel monitoring is required. The doses entered on the records shall be for periods of time not exceeding one calendar quarter. Personnel monitoring records maintained in accordance with provisions of this section shall be available for inspection by the department's representatives upon request.

(Effective October 1, 1982)