DOE Office of Science Safety Program

Safety Program

Summary
Safety Challenge
Best-in-Class
Laboratories
Site Offices
Headquarters
Injury/Illness Rates
Effectiveness

Radiation Protection

Office of Safety, Security and Infrastructure
(SC-31)

Environment, Safety & Health Division
(SC-31.1)

Infrastructure Division
(SC-31.2)

Safeguards and Security Division
(SC-31.3)

Radiation Protection

The Office of Science (SC) not only keeps occupational radiation exposures below the administrative control levels and regulatory limits in 10 CFR 835, but strives to reduce them to levels that are "As Low As Reasonably Achievable" (ALARA). The ALARA methodology considers both individual and group doses, and involves a cost/benefit analysis that considers social, technical, economic, practical, and public policy aspects of the overall goal of dose reduction.

The Radiological Control Profile For the Office of Science Laboratories gives managers a current assessment of the performance of the SC laboratories with respect to ALARA. The analysis in this report considers:

the total number of individuals who are monitored for dose
the number of those who actually receive a measurable dose
their average dose, and
the group (or total collective) dose for all monitored individuals at all SC laboratories.