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AFI 48-139 — Laser and Optical Radiation Protection Program

AFI 48-139 is listed as current Current
in the AF e-Publishing catalog as of our last index refresh (2026-08-23). Status is mirrored from that catalog, re-checked weekly — every change is logged. Note: its publication date is 2020-04-22 — 6.3 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.
BranchU.S. Air Force
SeriesAFI
Publication date2020-04-22 (6.3 years ago)
StatusCurrent
Proponent / OPRAF/SG
Source of recordAF e-Publishing

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What this publication covers

This instruction prescribes the use of an AF approved Occupational and Environmental Health - Management Information System (OEH-MIS) to standardize and enhance data entry, management, and reporting. The Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System-Industrial Hygiene (DOEHRS-IH) is a DoD software program designed to provide a web-based information management system that will store and manage personal OEH exposure information and monitoring data, personal protective equipment (PPE) usage data, and employee health hazard education data.

What changed in this edition

This document is substantially revised and must be completely reviewed. Tiers have been added to wing-level and below directives and a re designated with a “(T-x)”, where x ranges from 0 to 3 to indicate waiver authority. This tiering results from changes to the inspection process outlined in AFI 90-201, The Air Force Inspection System. Refer to AFI 90-201 for details

Publications state their own changes on page 1 — behind a PDF the official host will not serve to a search engine. This is that section, verbatim. It describes the edition above, not every historical change.

If AFI 48-139 changes, who else is affected

Functional communityPublicationsWhich ones
Safety2DAFMAN 91-203, AFI 91-202 ANG Sup
Acquisition1DAFPAM 63-128

3 publications in 2 other communities depend on this one, which Aerospace Medicine owns. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.

Publications that cite AFI 48-139

If AFI 48-139 changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.

Changes & supplements to AFI 48-139

Records in this branch carrying the same series and number — interim changes, guidance memoranda, and unit supplements. A copy stamped with one of these is a different document from the base publication.

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