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Chapter 5
PERSONNEL MONITORING FOR PREGNANT RADIATION WORKERS
5.1. Installation Radiation Safety Officer (RSO):
5.1.1. Evaluates the exposure potential for each pregnant worker, and advises their attending physician
accordingly.
5.1.2. Prescribes protective measures to include possible enrollment in the dosimetry program (if not
already on the program, and providing potential exists to exceed 100 mrem DDE over the gestation
period), placement on a monthly versus quarterly dosimetry exchange cycle and priority processing of
dosimetry by IERA/SDRD.
5.1.3. Recommends work restrictions necessary to ensure adequate protection of the embry/fetus.
Assignment of pregnant workers to alternative duties for radiation protection purposes shall be without
loss of all normal benefits associated with duties from which removed. Pregnant workers are normally
removed from radiation related duties under the following circumstances:
5.1.3.1. Past monitoring (internal and external) indicates the worker will receive a whole body
total effective dose equivalent of greater than 500 mrem over the gestation period, or the potential
for receiving this dose is considered excessive.
5.1.3.2. Work involving unsealed radionuclides unless authorized in writing by AFMOA/SGOR.
5.1.4. The installation RSO notifies IERA/SDRD in writing of pregnant occupational radiation workers
requiring monthly monitoring and priority reporting of results. This notification should be made
by facsimile and must include the individual’s name, Social Security Number (SSAN), the installation
and work area code, the estimated date of conception, and whether or not the worker had any past history
of external or internal radiation exposure.
5.2. IERA/SDRD: Monitors pregnant workers on a monthly basis and is responsible for maintaining a
separate embryo/fetus dose history. Records of the dose to an embryo/fetus will be maintained with the
record of dose to the mother which is reported on the AF Form 1527-1 and 1527-2. The dose history for
the embryo/fetus will be kept in a sub-database of the MRER by the mother’s SSAN. The embryo/fetus
dose is equivalent to the sum of the mother’s deep dose equivalent and internal embryo/fetus dose. Separate
reporting of the embryo/fetus dose will be provided at the request of the mother.