HAR 11-45 — RADIATION CONTROL (Subchapter 1 to 14)

(a) Protection surveys. (1) The licensee shall ensure that radiation protection surveys of all new facilities, and existing facilities not previously surveyed are performed with an operable radiation measurement survey instrument calibrated in accordance with this subchapter. The…

(a) Each applicant or licensee subject to section 11-45-236 or section 11-45-238 shall establish and maintain a written quality management program to provide high confidence that radiation shall be administered as directed by the authorized user. The quality management program sh…

(a) When the x-ray tube is operated at its maximum rated tube current for the maximum kilovolts, the leakage air kerma rate shall not exceed the value specified at the distance specified for that classification of therapeutic radiation machine: (1) Five to fifty kilovolt systems:…

Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-237

(a) Each facility location authorized to use a therapeutic radiation machine in accordance with this section shall possess appropriately calibrated portable monitoring equipment. As a minimum, such equipment shall include a portable radiation measurement survey instrument capable…

Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-239

(a) All licensees shall renew their license biennially before the expiration date by submitting a renewal application on a form furnished by the department and a renewal license fee according to the initial fee schedule in section 11-45-22. (b) Notices to renew licenses shall be …

(a) The licensee shall ensure that the survey instruments used to show compliance with this subchapter have been calibrated before first use, at intervals not to exceed twelve months, and following repair. (b) To satisfy the requirements of subsection (a), the licensee shall: (1)…

(a) Each therapeutic radiation machine subject to sections 11-45-236 and 11-45-238 shall be provided with such primary and/or secondary barriers as are necessary to ensure compliance with subchapter 4. (b) Facility design information for all new installations of a therapeutic rad…

The licensee shall notify the department in writing of any change which would render the information contained in the license no longer accurate. Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-25 [Eff 11/12/99] (Auth: HRS §§ 321-10, 321-11, 321-71) (Imp: HRS §§ 321-1, 321-11(21), 321-71)

No person, in any advertisement, shall refer to the fact that a facility with sources of radiation is licensed, and no person shall state or imply that any activity under such license has been approved by the department. Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-26 [Eff 11/12/99] (Auth: HRS §§ …

(a) No radiation machines shall be assembled or installed in a facility which does not have a current license. (b) No source of radiation shall be transferred to a facility which does not have a current license. (c) No person shall manufacture, sell, lease, transfer, lend, assemb…

Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-28

Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-29

(a) Sources of radiation licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission are exempt from the requirements of this chapter to the extent they are regulated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the kind and amount of …

(a) Before any source of radiation currently licensed by another state or the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is brought into the State, for any temporary use, the person proposing to bring such source into the State shall give written notice to the department at least seven w…

No radiation facility licensee shall allow any person in the business of providing radiation machine installation or radiation services to furnish such services to their sources of radiation or to a facility that does not have a valid license issued by the department. This does n…

This subchapter establishes requirements for shielding of facilities with sources of radiation. This subchapter applies to all licensees and persons who intend to obtain sources of radiation. Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-32 [Eff 11/12/99] (Auth: HRS §§ 321-10, 321-11, 321-71) (Imp:…

(a) Before construction, the construction plans of all new facilities, or modifications of existing facilities, utilizing sources of radiation shall be submitted to the department for review and approval. These plans shall show, as a minimum, the following: (1) Normal location of…

(a) An area radiation survey of a new facility or modification to an existing facility shall be conducted by, or under the direction of, a qualified medical physicist within six months after the beginning of its operation to determine compliance with subchapter 4. (b) The license…

Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-35

This subchapter establishes standards for protection against ionizing radiation resulting from activities conducted pursuant to licenses issued by the department. These standards are designed to control the receipt, possession, use, transfer, and disposal of sources of radiation …

Sources of radiation licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission are exempt from the requirements of this subchapter to the extent they are regulated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-37 [Eff 11/12/99] (Auth: HRS §§ 321-10, 321-11, 321-7…

(a) Any existing license condition that is more restrictive than subchapter 4 remains in force until there is an amendment or renewal of the license. (b) If a license condition exempts a licensee from a provision of subchapter 4 in effect on or before effective date of these rule…

(a) Each licensee shall develop, document, and implement a radiation protection program sufficient to ensure compliance with the provisions of this subchapter and acceptable to the department. (b) The licensee shall use, to the extent practicable, procedures and engineering contr…

(a) The department shall inspect and examine facilities with sources of radiation in order to determine compliance with this chapter. The frequency of inspections shall be determined by the director. (b) If such inspection indicates that the facility is not in compliance with thi…

(a) The licensee shall control the occupational dose to individual adults, except for planned special exposures, to the following dose limits: (1) An annual limit, which is the more restrictive of: (A) The total effective dose equivalent being equal to five rems (0.05 sievert); o…

(a) If the licensee is required to monitor pursuant to section 11-45-54(a) and (b), the licensee shall demonstrate compliance with the dose limits by summing external and internal doses. If the licensee is required to monitor only pursuant to section 11-45-54(a) or only pursuant …

(a) Licensees shall, when determining the dose from airborne radioactive material, include the contribution to the deep dose equivalent, eye dose equivalent, and shallow dose equivalent from external exposure to the radioactive cloud. See Appendix B, footnotes 1 and 2. (b) Airbor…

(a) For purposes of assessing dose used to determine compliance with occupational dose equivalent limits, the licensee shall, when required under section 11-45-54, take suitable and timely measurements of: (1) Concentrations of radioactive materials in air in work areas; or (2) Q…

(a) For each individual who may enter the licensee's restricted or controlled area and is likely to receive, in a year, an occupational dose requiring monitoring pursuant to section 11-45-54, the licensee shall: (1) Determine the occupational radiation dose received during the cu…

A licensee may authorize an adult worker to receive doses in addition to and accounted for separately from the doses received under the limits specified in section 11-45-40 provided that each of the following conditions is satisfied: (1) The licensee authorizes a planned special …

The annual occupational dose limits for minors are ten percent of the annual occupational dose limits specified for adult workers in section 11-45-40. Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-46 [Eff 11/12/99] (Auth: HRS §§ 321-10, 321-11, 321-71) (Imp: HRS §§ 321-1, 321-11(21), 321-71)…

(a) The licensee shall ensure that the dose to an embryo/fetus during the entire pregnancy, due to occupational exposure of a declared pregnant woman, does not exceed 0.5 rem (five millisieverts). (b) The licensee shall make efforts to avoid substantial variation above a uniform …

(a) Each licensee shall conduct operations so that: (1) The total effective dose equivalent to individual members of the public from the licensed operation does not exceed 0.1 rem (one millisieverts) in a year, exclusive of the dose contribution from the licensee's disposal of ra…

(a) The licensee shall make or cause to be made surveys of radiation levels in unrestricted and controlled areas and radioactive materials in effluents released to unrestricted and controlled areas to demonstrate compliance with the dose limits for individual members of the publi…

(a) When the director has grounds to believe that anyone has violated any provision of these rules or of any order of the director, the director may notify the alleged violator or violators of the alleged violation order and may require that the alleged violator appear before the…

Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-50

Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-51

(a) Each sealed source with a half-life greater than thirty days and in any form other than gas, shall be tested for leakage or contamination before initial use and, unless otherwise authorized by the department, at intervals not to exceed six months, except that each source desi…

(a) Radiation surveys shall be conducted in all areas in the vicinity of sources of radiation by, or under the direction of, a qualified medical physicist. (b) Instruments and equipment used for quantitative radiation measurements shall be calibrated at least annually. (c) All pe…

(a) Each licensee shall monitor occupational exposure to radiation and shall supply and require the use of individual monitoring devices by: (1) Adults likely to receive, in one year from sources external to the body, a dose in excess of ten percent of the limits in section 11-45…

(a) The licensee 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 that level at which an individual might rece…

(a) In addition to the requirements in section 11-45-55, the licensee shall institute additional 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 five hundred rads (five grays) …

(a) This section applies to licensees with sources of radiation in non-self-shielded irradiators, and does not apply to sources of radiation that are used in teletherapy, in industrial radiography, or in completely self-shielded irradiators in which the source of radiation is bot…

The licensee shall use, to the extent practicable, process or other engineering controls, such as, containment or ventilation, to control the concentrations of radioactive material in air. Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-58 [Eff 11/12/99] (Auth: HRS §§ 321-10, 321-11, 321-71) (Imp: HR…

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

(a) Each licensee shall maintain records showing the receipt, transfer, and disposal of all sources of radiation. Additional record requirements are specified in these rules. (b) Each licensee shall afford the department at all reasonable times entrance to private or public prope…

(a) If the licensee uses respiratory protection equipment to limit intakes pursuant to section 11-45-59: (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the licensee shall use only respiratory protection equipment that is tested and certified or had certification extended by the Nationa…

The licensee shall secure from unauthorized removal or access licensed sources of radiation that are stored in controlled or unrestricted areas. Notes Haw. Code R. § 11-45-61 [Eff 11/12/99] (Auth: HRS §§ 321-10, 321-11, 321-71) (Imp: HRS §§ 321-1, 321-11(21), 321-71)