Chapter 7. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES - RADIATION CONTROL

The following definitions apply in this Article, unless the context otherwise requires: “Air-purifying respirator” means respiratory protective equipment with an air-purifying filter, cartridge, or canister that removes specific air contaminants by passing ambient air through the…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall use the Standard International (SI) units becquerel, gray, sievert, and coulomb per kilogram, or the special units curie, rad, rem, and roentgen, including multiples and subdivisions, and shall clearly indicate the units of all quantities on r…

A. A licensee or registrant shall ensure that each record required by this Article is legible throughout the specified retention period. The record shall be the original, a reproduced copy, or a microform, provided that the copy or microform is authenticated by authorized personn…

Any existing license or registration condition that is more restrictive than this Article remains in force until amendment or renewal of the license or registration. Historical Note New Section R9-7-406 recodified from R12-1-406, at 24 A.A.R. 813, effective March 22, 2018 (Supp. …

A. Each licensee or registrant shall develop, document, and implement a radiation protection program sufficient to ensure compliance with the provisions of Article 4. B. The licensee or registrant shall use, to the extent practical, procedures and engineering controls based upon …

A. Each licensee or registrant shall control the occupational dose to individual adults, except for planned special exposures required in R9-7-413, to the following dose limits: 1. An annual limit, which is the more limiting of: a. The total effective dose equivalent being equal …

A. If a licensee or registrant is required to monitor according to both R9-7-419(B) and (C), the licensee or registrant shall add external and internal doses, and use the sum to demonstrate compliance with dose limits. If the licensee or registrant is required to monitor only acc…

A. Each licensee shall, when determining the dose from airborne radioactive material, include the contribution to the deep-dose equivalent, lens dose equivalent, and shallow dose equivalent from external exposure to the radioactive cloud. See Appendix B, footnotes 1 and 2. B. Air…

A. For purposes of assessing dose used to determine compliance with occupational dose equivalent limits, each licensee or registrant shall, when required according to R9-7-419, take suitable and timely measurements of: 1. Concentrations of radioactive materials in air in work are…

A. For each individual who is likely to receive in a year an occupational dose that requires monitoring according to R9-7-419 the licensee shall: 1. Determine the occupational radiation dose received during the current year, and 2. Attempt to obtain the records of lifetime cumula…

A. A licensee or registrant may authorize an adult worker to receive doses in addition to and accounted for separately from the doses received under the limits specified in R9-7-408, provided that each of the following conditions is satisfied: 1. The licensee or registrant author…

The annual occupational dose limits for minors are 10% of the annual occupational dose limits specified for adult workers in R9-7-408. Historical Note New Section R9-7-414 recodified from R12-1-414, at 24 A.A.R. 813, effective March 22, 2018 (Supp. 18-1).

A. A licensee or registrant shall ensure that the dose equivalent to an embryo or fetus during the entire pregnancy, due to occupational exposure of a declared pregnant woman, does not exceed 5 mSv (0.5 rem). Records shall be maintained according to R9-7-419(E)(4) and (5). B. The…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall conduct operations so that: 1. The total effective dose equivalent to any individual member of the public from the licensed or registered operation does not exceed 1 mSv (0.1 rem) in a year, excluding the dose contribution from background radi…

A. A licensee in possession of any sealed source shall ensure that: 1. Each sealed source, except as specified in subsection (B), is tested for leakage or contamination and the test results are received before the sealed source is put into use unless the licensee has a certificat…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall make, or cause to be made, surveys if surveys are: 1. Necessary for the licensee or registrant to comply with Article 4, and 2. Reasonable under the circumstances to evaluate: a. The magnitude and extent of radiation levels, and b. Concentrati…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall monitor exposures from sources of radiation at levels sufficient to demonstrate compliance with the occupational dose limits of this Article. B. At minimum each licensee or registrant shall supply and require the use of individual monitoring d…

A. A licensee or registrant shall ensure that each entrance or access point to a high radiation area has one or more of the following features: 1. A control device that, upon entry into the area, causes the level of radiation to be reduced below the level at which an individual m…

A. In addition to the requirements in R9-7-420, a licensee or registrant shall institute measures to ensure that an individual is not able to gain unauthorized or inadvertent access to areas in which radiation levels could be encountered at 5 Gy (500 rad) or more in one hour at 1…

A. This Section applies to licensees or registrants with sources of radiation in non-self-shielded irradiators. This Section does not apply to sources of radiation that are used in teletherapy, industrial radiography, or completely self-shielded irradiators in which the source of…

A licensee shall use, to the extent practicable, process or other engineering controls, such as containment, decontamination, or ventilation, to control the concentration of radioactive material in air. Historical Note New Section R9-7-423 recodified from R12-1-423, at 24 A.A.R. …

A. If it is not practical to apply process or other engineering controls to control concentrations of radioactive material in the air to values below those that define an airborne radioactivity area, the licensee shall, consistent with maintaining the total effective dose equival…

A. If a licensee assigns or permits the use of respiratory protection equipment to limit the intake of radioactive material, 1. Except as provided in subsection (A)(2), the licensee shall use only respiratory protection equipment that is tested and certified by the National Insti…

A licensee or registrant shall secure from unauthorized removal or access licensed or registered sources of radiation that are stored in unrestricted areas. Historical Note New Section R9-7-426 recodified from R12-1-426, at 24 A.A.R. 813, effective March 22, 2018 (Supp. 18-1).

A. A licensee shall control and maintain constant surveillance of licensed radioactive material that is in an unrestricted area and is not in storage or in a patient. B. A registrant shall maintain control of radiation machines that are in an unrestricted area and not in storage.…

A. Unless otherwise authorized by the Department, a licensee or registrant shall use the symbol prescribed by this Section with the colors magenta, or purple, or black on yellow background as the standard radiation symbol. The symbol prescribed is the three-bladed design as follo…

A. A licensee or registrant shall post each radiation area with a conspicuous sign or signs bearing the radiation symbol and the words “CAUTION, RADIATION AREA.” B. The licensee or registrant shall post each high radiation area with a conspicuous sign or signs bearing the radiati…

A. A licensee or registrant is not required to post caution signs in areas or rooms containing sources of radiation for periods of less than eight hours, if each of the following conditions is met: 1. The sources of radiation are constantly attended during these periods by an ind…

A. A licensee shall ensure that each container of licensed material is labeled with a durable, clearly visible radiation symbol and the words “CAUTION, RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL” or “DANGER, RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL.” The label shall also provide information, such as the radionuclides pre…

A licensee is not required to label: 1. Containers holding licensed material in quantities less than the quantities listed in Appendix C; 2. Containers holding licensed material in concentrations less than those specified in Table III of Appendix B; 3. Containers attended by an i…

A. Each licensee who expects to receive a package containing quantities of radioactive material in excess of a Type A quantity, as defined in 10 CFR 71.4, January 1, 2005, which is incorporated by reference, published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and R…

A. A licensee shall dispose of licensed material only: 1. By transfer to an authorized recipient as provided in R9-7-439 or in Article 3, or to the U.S. Department of Energy; 2. By decay in storage, according to R9-7-438(C); 3. By release in effluents within the limits in R9-7-41…

For disposal of licensed material generated in the licensee’s operations, a licensee or applicant for a license may apply to the Department for approval of proposed disposal procedures, not otherwise authorized in this Chapter. Each application shall include: 1. A description of …

A. A licensee may discharge licensed material into sanitary sewerage if each of the following conditions is satisfied: 1. The material is readily soluble or is readily dispersible biological material, in water; 2. The quantity of licensed radioactive material that the licensee re…

A licensee shall treat or dispose of licensed material by incineration only in the amounts and forms specified in R9-7-438 or as specifically approved by the Department according to R9-7-435. Historical Note New Section R9-7-436 recodified from R12-1-436, at 24 A.A.R. 813, effect…

A. A licensee may dispose of the following licensed material as if it were not radioactive: 1. 1.85 kBq (0.05 µCi), or less, of Hydrogen-3 or Carbon-14 per gram of medium used for liquid scintillation counting; and 2. 1.85 kBq (0. 05 µCi), or less, of Hydrogen-3 or Carbon-14 per …

A. Licensed material as defined in the definition of radioactive material in R9-7-102 may be disposed of in accordance with this Article, even though it is not defined as low-level radioactive waste. Therefore, any licensed radioactive material being disposed of at a facility, or…

A. Any licensee shipping radioactive waste intended for ultimate disposal at a licensed land disposal facility (for purposes of this rule “land disposal facility” means the land, buildings, structures, and equipment that are intended to be used for the disposal of radioactive was…

Nothing in R9-7-434, R9-7-435, R9-7-436, R9-7-437, R9-7-438, or R9-7-439 relieves the licensee from complying with other applicable federal, state, and local rules or regulations governing any other toxic or hazardous properties of materials that may be disposed of according to t…

A. Each licensee shall maintain records of the disposal of licensed materials made in accordance with R9-7-435, R9-7-436, R9-7-437, R9-7-438, and disposal by burial in soil, including burials authorized before February 25, 1985. B. The licensee shall retain the records required b…

Each shipment of waste to a disposal facility, licensed under R9-7-1302(D)(11), is subject to inspection by the Department before shipment or transportation. The waste shipper shall notify the Department not less than five working days before the scheduled shipment or transportat…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall report to the Department by telephone, as specified in R9-7-448(C), as follows: 1. Immediately after it becomes known to the licensee that licensed radioactive material in an aggregate quantity equal to or greater than 1,000 times the quantity…

A. In addition to the notification required by R9-7-445, each licensee or registrant shall submit a written report within 30 days after learning of any of the following: 1. Incidents for which notification is required by R9-7-445; 2. Doses in excess of any of the following: a. Th…

A. Immediate notification: Each licensee or registrant shall immediately report to the Department, as specified in R9-7-448(C), any event involving a radiation source that may have caused or threatens to cause any of the following conditions: 1. An individual to receive: a. A tot…

A. Requirements for notification and reports to individuals of exposure to radiation or radioactive material are specified in R9-7-1004. B. In addition to the reporting requirements in R9-7-444 and R9-7-445, each licensee or registrant shall notify the individual exposed to radia…

A. If a facility has been used for activities involving radioactive material a licensee shall notify the Department in writing of the intent to vacate the facility no less than 45 days before relinquishing possession or control of the facility. B. If a facility is contaminated wi…

A. Each licensee shall notify the Department, according to subsection (C), as soon as possible, but not later than four hours after the discovery of an event, and take immediate protective actions necessary to avoid exposures to radiation or radioactive materials that could excee…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall ensure that survey instruments used to show compliance with this Article have been calibrated before first use, annually, and following repair, unless otherwise specified in this Chapter. B. To satisfy the requirements of subsection (A), the l…

A. A licensee shall only receive, possess, and use radioactive materials contained in a sealed source that has been manufactured, labeled, packaged, and distributed in accordance with a specific license for its manufacture and distribution. The license to manufacture and distribu…

A. As the final step before terminating a radioactive material use program licensed under R9-7-312, the licensee shall: 1. Certify to the Department the disposition of all licensed material, including accumulated wastes, by submitting a complete description of a disposal plan wit…