Prudent management of minors with occupational exposures to hazardous agents: the radiation protection “standard of care”

After a series of setbacks, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was passed in 1938 and raised the full time working age to 16 and strictly limited the working conditions for 14 and 15 year olds. 8 The act also prohibited minors from working in certain hazardous occupations, such a mining, manufacturing explosives, or working with radium. [...]with occupational exposure limits and recommendations being based on data almost exclusively from adult males, unequivocal reliance on such limits as satisfactory for minors may not be appropriate.\n (4) VOLUNTARILY REDUCE EXPOSURE LEVELS Health and safety professionals can ensure that engineering controls, work practices and procedures are utilized to their fullest extent to reduce exposure levels to at least some level below the established PEL or TLV.