Compliance with dose limits ensures that working in a radiation laboratory is as safe as working in any other safe occupation. The goal of the radiation safety program is to ensure that radiation dose to workers, members of the public, and to the environment is as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) below the limits established by regulatory agencies. The program also ensures that individual users conduct their work in accordance with university, state, and federal requirements.

In the preface to this manual, management has committed to an ALARA policy.