Code of Massachusetts Regulations
105 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Title 105 CMR 120.000 - The Control of Radiation
RADIATION SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
Section 120.325 - Operating and Emergency Procedures
Universal Citation: 105 CMR 120.000 MA Code of Regs 120.325
Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(A) Operating and emergency procedures must include, as a minimum, instructions in the following:
(1) Appropriate handling and
use of sources of radiation for industrial radiography so that no person is
likely to be exposed to radiation doses in excess of the limits established in
105 CMR 120.200;
(2) Methods and
occasions for conducting radiation surveys;
(3) Methods for posting and controlling
access to radiographic areas;
(4)
Methods and occasions for locking and securing sources of radiation;
(5) Personnel monitoring and the use of
personnel monitoring equipment;
(6)
Transporting equipment to field locations, including packing of radiographic
exposure devices and storage containers in the vehicles, placarding of vehicles
when required, and control of the equipment during transportation as described
in 105 CMR 120.770;
(7) The
inspection, maintenance, and operability checks of radiographic exposure
devices and associated equipment, radiation machines, survey instruments,
alarming ratemeters, transport containers, and storage containers and source
changers;
(8) Steps that must be
taken immediately by radiography personnel in the event a pocket dosimeter is
found to be off-scale or an alarming ratemeter alarms unexpectedly;
(9) The procedure(s) for identifying and
reporting defects and noncompliance, as required by
105 CMR
120.385;
(10) The procedure for notifying proper
persons in the event of an accident or incident;
(11) Minimizing exposure of persons in the
event of an accident or incident, including a source disconnect, a transport
accident, or loss of a source of radiation;
(12) Source recovery procedure if licensee
will perform source recoveries;
(13) Maintenance of records; and,
(14) The procedures for calculating exposures
as required by
105 CMR
120.323(B), when a personnel
monitoring badge is lost or damaged.
(B) The licensee or registrant shall maintain copies of current operating and emergency procedures in accordance with 105 CMR 120.367 and 105 CMR 120.371.
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