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Occupational and Public Dose



     NUREG/CR-6204 "Questions and Answers Based on Revised 10 CFR Part 20" 
     may give some insight here.
     
     Try Question 31 on page 15.
     
     Q 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.
     
     A 31: Occupational dose is defined in revised Part 20 as "the dose 
     recieved 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 volunteers are subject to 
     the occupational limits.
     
     I hope this helps.