Radioactive Materials Safety Manual

Service and Emergency Providers	3
Non-discrimination Statement	3
Table of Acronyms	7
A. Introduction	8
B. Regulatory Requirements	9
University Policy	9
C. Administrative Controls	10
Environmental Health and Safety	10
Radiation Safety Committee	10
Radiation Safety Officer	10
University Compliance Committees	11
Animals - Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)	11
Biohazards - Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC)	11
Humans - Institutional Review Board (IRB)	11
Radiation - Radiation Safety Committee (RSC)	11
D. Process Planning	12
Authorization Process	12
Personnel Information	12
Facility Description	13
Project Description	13
Research Centers	14
Review and Approval of Application	14
Summary of the Radiation Authorization Application, Review and Approval Process	15
Radiation Authorization Amendments	15
Adding Authorized Personnel	15
Approval in Concept	16
Authorization Termination and Laboratory Closure	16
E. Training Requirements	17
Radioactive Material Users	18
Awareness Training for Laboratory Personnel	18
Service Personnel Working in a Radiation Laboratory	18
Minors Visiting or Completing Work in a Radiation Laboratory	19
Laboratory Specific Training	19
F. Responsibilities	20
Responsibilities of the Principal Investigator	20
Responsibilities of the Authorized Personnel	21
G. Obtaining Radioactive Material	22
Ordering Radioactive Material	22
Radioactive Material Ordering Procedures:	22
Receipt and Delivery of Radioactive Material	23
Receipt of Free/Gifted/Evaluation Materials and Devices	23
H. Security, Storage, Transfer, and Transportation of Radioactive Materials	24
Security of Radioactive Material	24
Storage of Radioactive Material: RAM Sources, Labeled Materials and Waste	24
On-Campus Transfers of RAM	24
Off-Campus RAM Transfers	25
Transportation of Radioactive Material	25
Transportation of RAM on Public Roadways	25
Package Preparation	25
Other important considerations	26
Transportation of RAM or Devices	26
Temporary Job Sites and Remote Locations	26
Reciprocal Licensing	26
I. Radioactive Waste	27
Radioactive Waste Handling	27
Summary of solid waste criteria	27
Summary of liquid waste criteria	27
Other important considerations	28
Disposal of Equipment with Embedded Sources	28
Radioactive Waste Minimization	29
J. Personnel Exposure	30
Occupational Dose Limits	30
External Dose	30
Internal Dose	30
Sum Of External and Internal Doses	30
Regulatory Dose Limits to Declared Pregnant Workers	31
Occupational Dose Limits for Minors	32
Regulatory Limits for Dose to Individual Members of the Public	32
K. Personnel Monitoring	33
Personnel Dosimeters	33
Whole Body	33
Extremity/Ring	33
Bioassays	34
ALARA and Personnel Exposure Records/Reports	34
L. Laboratory Safety	35
Facility Requirements	35
Procedures, Practices, and Rules for the Safe Use of Radioactive Materials	36
Approved Locations and Equipment	37
Contamination Surveys by Authorized Personnel	37
Annual Reviews	38
Radioactive Material Audits	38
Radioactive Material Surveys	38
M. Emergency & Decontamination Procedures	39
Minor Spills and Contaminations	39
Major Spills and Contaminations	39
Restricting Access to Areas Due to RAM Contamination	40
Accidents Involving Radioactive Material	40
Decontamination Procedures	41
Clean-up of Radioactive Contamination and Legacy Materials or Devices	42
N. Other Uses of Radioactive Materials	43
Radioiodination	43
Animal and Biological Specimen Use	43
Environmental Releases	43
Appendix I - Guidelines for the Safe Use of Radionuclides	44
Appendix II - Dictionary and Glossary	58

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