Pregnant Employee’s Guide to Radiation Safety

During the course of employment, the informed pregnant employee, who either works with radiation or who works in environments where she might be incidentally exposed to radiation, will be better prepared to protect herself and her child against potential risks. Methods to minimize radiation risks are explained. Our goal is to manage radiation exposures to levels that are as low as reasonably achievable while not compromising the conduct of duties in the workplace.

Radiation has many forms: heat, light, ultraviolet, microwave, ionizing, and so on. We protect ourselves from overexposure to all these radiations. However, humans have no physical sensation to potentially dangerous levels of ionizing radiation and thus can potentially be exposed to harmful
levels without knowing it. Therefore, ionizing radiation (x rays, gamma rays, beta rays etc.) requires special consideration for safety and management.

For more information download the Word doc.

To declare yourself for the Pregnant Worker Program please select Pregnancy Declaration form.
To remove yourself from the Pregnant Worker Program please select Termination of Fetal Dosimetry form.

Please complete these forms and return them to members of the Radiation Safety Program ([email protected]) or you can directly contact Danette Fennesy (Hospital Focused) (at 713-500-5384), Teena Mavumkal (Clinic Focused) (at 713-500-5833) or Johnné Dawson (Research and Clinic Focused) (at 713-500-7076) in Radiation Safety. For questions regarding this program you can also call the main Radiation Safety Program number at 713-500-5840.