Radiation Safety Committee Responsibilities and Duties

Responsibilities

The Committee is responsible for:

1. Ensuring that all individuals who work with or who may receive a workplace exposure to ionizing radiation have sufficient training and/or experience to enable them to perform their duties safely and in accordance with NYSDOH regulations and the conditions of the University's License.

2. Ensuring that all use of radioactive materials and radiation-producing equipment is conducted in a safe manner and in accordance with NYSDOH regulations and the conditions of the License.

Duties

The Committee shall:

1. Be familiar with New York State regulations (10 NYCRR Part 16, 6 NYCRR Parts 380 and 381), the terms of the University's radioactive materials License and any information submitted in support of request for the License and its amendments.

2. Review the training and experience of all individuals who use radioactive materials or radiation-producing equipment and determine that their qualifications are sufficient to enable them to perform their duties safely and in accordance with applicable regulations and the conditions of the License.

3. Review and approve all requests for use of radioactive materials and radiation-producing equipment within the University.

4. Be responsible for monitoring the University's program to maintain individual and collective doses as low as reasonably achievable.

5. Establish a table of investigational levels for occupational radiation exposure, which when exceeded, will initiate an investigation and consideration of action by the RSO.

6. Review semi annually, with the assistance of the RSO, occupational radiation exposure records of all monitored personnel.

7. Establish a program to ensure that all individuals whose duties may require them to work in the vicinity of radioactive material or radiation producing equipment (i.e. security and housekeeping personnel) are properly instructed as required by Section 16.13 of 10 NYCRR Part 16.

8. Prescribe special conditions that will be required during a proposed use of radioactive material such as requirements for bioassays, physical examinations of users, special monitoring procedures, etc.

9. Review the entire Radiation Protection Program at least annually to determine that activities are being conducted safely and in accordance with NYS regulations and the conditions of the License. The review shall include an examination of records, reports from the RSO, results of NYS inspections, written safety procedures and the adequacy of the University's management control system.

10. Recommend remedial action to correct any deficiencies identified in the Radiation Protection Program.

11. Maintain written records of all Committee meetings, actions, decisions and recommendations.

12. Ensure that the radioactive materials license is amended, when necessary, prior to any changes in facilities, equipment, policies, procedures, personnel, radioactive material and possession limits, as specified in the License.

13. Oversee or delegate a sub-committee to oversee the administration of the University's Diagnostic X-ray Quality Assurance Program.

14. Be responsible for monitoring the University's program to maintain releases of radioactive materials to the environment as low as reasonable achievable and inaccordance with 6 NYCRR Part 380.

Meetings

1. The Radiation Safety Committee shall meet as often as necessary to conduct its business, but not less than once in each calendar year.

2. A quorum shall consist of at least one half of the Committee's membership, including the RSO and the management representative consisting of either the V.P. for Research and Computing or the Sr. V.P. for Business, Finance, and Administrative Services.

3. All issues requiring Committee action, with the exception of applications for use of radiation sources, will be approved or disapproved based on the majority opinion of all members of the Committee. Applications for use of radiation sources will be approved or disapproved based on the majority opinion of the technical members of the Committee only.

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