Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 45 - RADIATION CONTROL
Subchapter 7 - USE OF RADIONUCLIDES IN THE HEALING ARTS
Section 11-45-149 - Surveys for contamination and ambient radiation dose rate
Current through February, 2024
(a) A licensee shall survey with a radiation detection survey instrument at the end of each day of use all areas where radiopharmaceuticals are routinely prepared for use or administered.
(b) A licensee shall survey with a radiation detection survey instrument at least once each week all areas where radiopharmaceuticals or radioactive wastes are stored.
(c) A licensee shall conduct the surveys required by subsections (a) and (b) so as to be able to measure dose rates as low as 0.1 millirem (one microsievert) per hour.
(d) A licensee shall establish dose rate action levels for the surveys required by subsections (a) and (b) and shall require that the individual performing the survey immediately notify the radiation safety officer if a dose rate exceeds an action level.
(e) A licensee shall survey for removable contamination each day of use all areas where radiopharmaceuticals are routinely prepared for use or administered and each week where radioactive materials are stored.
(f) A licensee shall conduct the surveys required by subsection (e) so as to be able to detect contamination on each wipe sample of two thousand disintegrations per minute (33.3 becquerels).
(g) A licensee shall establish removable contamination action levels for the surveys required by subsection (e) and shall require that the individual performing the survey immediately notify the radiation safety officer if contamination exceeds action levels.
(h) A licensee shall retain a record of each survey required by subsections (a), (b), and (e). The record shall include the date of the survey, a sketch of each area surveyed, action levels established for each area, the measured dose rate at several points in each area expressed in millirems (microsieverts) per hour or the removable contamination in each area expressed in disintegrations per minute (becquerels) per one hundred square centimeters, the serial number and the model number of the instrument used to make the survey or analyze the samples, and the initials of the individual who performed the survey.
