Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3701:1 - Radiation Control
Chapter 3701:1-38 - General Radiation Protection Standards for Sources of Radiation
Section 3701:1-38-10 - Notices, instructions, and reports to workers
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3701:1-38-10
Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A) Posting of notices to workers.
(1) Each licensee or registrant shall post
current copies of the following documents:
(a) All applicable rules promulgated pursuant
to Chapters 3748. and 4773. of the Revised Code;
(b) The license or certificate of
registration, including, any conditions or documents incorporated by reference
into a license and amendments thereto;
(c) The safe operating procedures applicable
to activities under the license or registration; and
(d) Any notice of violation involving
radiological working conditions, proposed imposition of civil or administrative
monetary penalty, or order issued pursuant to rule
3701:1-38-06
of the Administrative Code and any response from the licensee or registrant.
Such document shall be posted within five working days after receipt of the
document. The licensee's or registrant's response, if any, shall be posted
within five working days after dispatch of the document to the director. Such
documents shall remain posted for a minimum of five working days or until
action correcting the violation has been completed, whichever is
later.
(e) The Ohio department of
health, bureau of environmental health and
radiation protection issued form titled "Notice to Employees."
(2) If posting of a document
specified in paragraphs (A)(1)(a) to (A)(1)(c) of this rule is not practical,
the licensee or registrant may post a notice which describes the document and
states where it may be readily examined.
(3) Documents, notices, or forms posted
pursuant to paragraph (A) of this rule shall appear in a sufficient number of
places to permit individuals engaged in licensed or registered activity under
the license or registration to observe them on the way to or from any
particular work location to which the document applies, shall be conspicuous,
and shall be replaced if defaced or altered.
(B) Instruction to workers.
(1) The licensee or registrant shall, with
respect to all individuals likely to receive an annual TEDE occupational dose
in excess of one millisievert (one hundred millirem):
(a) Keep such individuals informed of the
storage, transfer, or use of sources of radiation in the licensee's or
registrant's workplace;
(b)
Instruct such individuals in the health effects associated with exposure to
radiation or radioactive material to the individual and potential offspring, in
precautions or procedures to minimize exposure, and in the purposes and
functions of protective devices employed;
(c) Instruct such individuals in, and
instruct such individuals to observe, to the extent within the individual's
control, the applicable provisions of rules promulgated under Chapter 3748. of
the Revised Code and any license conditions for the protection of personnel
from exposures to radiation or radioactive material;
(d) Instruct each such individual of his or
her responsibility to report promptly to the licensee or registrant any
condition which may constitute, lead to, or cause a violation of Chapter 3748.
of the Revised Code, the rules promulgated thereunder, any license condition,
or order, and any unnecessary exposure to radiation or radioactive
material;
(e) Instruct such
individuals in the appropriate response to warnings made in the event of any
unusual occurrence or malfunction that may involve exposure to radiation or
radioactive material; and
(f)
Advise such individuals of any radiation exposure reports furnished pursuant to
paragraph (C) of this rule.
(2) In determining those individuals subject
to the requirements of paragraph (B)(1) of this rule, licensees and registrants
shall take into consideration assigned activities during normal and abnormal
situations involving exposure to radiation and radioactive materials which can
reasonably be expected to occur during the life of the facility. The extent of
these instructions shall be commensurate with potential radiological health
protection problems present in the workplace.
(C) Notifications and reports to individuals.
(1) Radiation exposure data for an individual
and the results of any measurements, analyses, and calculations of radioactive
material deposited or retained in the body of an individual shall be reported
to the individual as specified in this rule. The information reported shall
include data and results obtained pursuant to Chapter 3748. of the Revised Code
or rules adopted thereunder, an order, or license condition as shown in records
maintained by the licensee or registrant pursuant to paragraph (H) of rule
3701:1-38-20 of the
Administrative Code. Each notification and report shall:
(a) Be in writing;
(b) Include appropriate identifying data such
as the name of the licensee or registrant, the name of the individual, and the
individual's identification number, preferably social security
number;
(c) Include the
individual's exposure information; and
(d) Contain the statement: "This report is
furnished to you under the provisions of rule 3701:1-38-10 of the
Administrative Code. You should preserve this report for further
reference."
(2) Each
licensee or registrant shall make dose information available to workers as
shown in records maintained by the licensee under the provisions of paragraph
(H) of rule
3701:1-38-20 of the
Administrative Code. The licensee or registrant shall provide an annual report
to each individual monitored under rule
3701:1-38-14
of the Administrative Code, of the dose received in that monitoring year if:
(a) The individual's occupational dose
exceeds one millisievert (one hundred millirem) TEDE or one millisievert (one
hundred millirem) to any individual organ or tissue; or
(b) The individual requests his or her annual
dose report.
(3) Each
licensee or registrant shall furnish reports to workers.
(a) At the request of a worker formerly
engaged in activities controlled by the licensee or registrant, each licensee
or registrant shall furnish to the worker a report of the worker's exposure to
sources of radiation:
(i) As shown in records
maintained by the licensee or registrant pursuant to rule
3701:1-38-20 of the
Administrative Code for each year the worker was required to be monitored under
the provisions of rule
3701:1-38-14
of the Administrative Code; and
(ii) For each year the worker was required to
be monitored under the monitoring requirements in effect prior to August 31,
1999.
(b) This report
must be furnished within thirty days from the time the request is made or
within thirty days after the exposure of the individual has been determined by
the licensee or registrant, whichever is later. This report must cover the
period of time that the worker's activities involved exposure to sources of
radiation licensed or registered by the director and must include the dates and
locations of licensed or registered activities in which the worker participated
during this period.
(4)
When a licensee or registrant is required pursuant to paragraphs (A) to (C) of
rule
3701:1-38-21 of the
Administrative Code to report to the director any exposure of an individual to
sources of radiation, the licensee or the registrant shall also provide the
individual a written report on the exposure data included in the report to the
director. This report must be transmitted no later than the transmittal to the
director.
(5) At the request of a
worker who is terminating employment with the licensee or registrant that
involved exposure to sources of radiation during the current calendar quarter
or the current year, each licensee or registrant shall provide at termination
to each worker, or to the worker's designee, a written report regarding the
radiation dose received by that worker from operations of the licensee or
registrant during the current calendar year or fraction thereof. If the most
recent individual monitoring results are not available at that time, a written
estimate of the dose must be provided together with a clear indication that
this is an estimate.
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates:
1/24/2022 and
01/20/2027
Promulgated
Under:
119.03
Statutory Authority:
3748.04
Rule Amplifies:
3748.04
Prior Effective Dates: 07/22/2001, 10/22/2006, 04/05/2009,
11/14/2013, 05/17/2018
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