Instructions for medical surveillance and fitness for duty evaluation on category A staff at KI
These instructions are designed for Karolinska Institutet (KI) in accordance with radiation protection legislation, the radiation protection ordinance, and radiation safety regulations.
- Diary number: 1-1043/2025
- Dnr preg. version: 1-699/2020
- Decision date:
- Validity period: Until further notice
- Decision: Head of Security
- Document type: Instructions
- Handled by department/unit: GVS.HRA.Arbetsrätt och arbetsmiljö
- Preparation with: Radiation protection deputies, radiation protection representatives, local HR, relevant heads of department, research group leaders, and Head of Security
- Revision with respect to: New procedures for collaboration with occupational health services and registration of fitness assessments and radiation dose reports
Summary of the instructions
These instructions apply to all employees who, based on an assessment by a radiation protection expert, are classified as Category A.
Employees must be classified as Category A if there is a risk that one or more of the following radiation dose limits may be exceeded:
- 6 mSv effective dose
- 15 mSv equivalent dose to the lens of the eye
- 150 mSv equivalent dose to extremities
- 150 mSv equivalent dose to the skin, averaged over 1 cm² (regardless of exposed area)
Placement in Category A requires medical examination and assessment of fitness for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation.