Question 31: Are students and volunteers subject to the
occupational dose limits? For example, nuclear medicine
students, or "candy stripers" that transport nuclear
medicine patients or perform volunteer work in a nuclear
medicine department.
Answer: Occupational dose is defined in revised Part 20
as "the dose received by an individual in a restricted area
or in the course of employment in which the individual's
assigned duties involve exposure to radiation . . ." In the
question above, the individual's assigned duties do involve
exposure to radiation as a necessary feature of those
duties; therefore, the students and volunteer are subject
to the occupational dose limits. (Reference: 10 CFR
20.1003, 10 CFR 20.1201)