Re: RE: Children in Research Areas

[Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

At 03:31 PM 5/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>are not grad students "by definition" (if not in fact) an employee of 
>the university?

Whether an exposure is occupational is not necessarily related to whether
the institution owning the radiation employs the exposed person. The
exposure is occupational if the exposed person is pursuing his/her
occupation, no matter who (if anyone) employs that person. The lawyers for
the likes of NRC, DOE, OSHA, etc. take the approach that lab activities are
part of a student's occupation, and that means any exposure is occupational
exposure. And I agree.

There may be a legal precedent on this matter that your legal staff could
dig up.

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Bob Flood
Dosimetry Group Leader
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(650) 926-3793
bflood@slac.stanford.edu