Introduction - Scope and Purpose of RSM
Section 1: General Radiation Safety Requirements
1. Committees - Radiation Safety, Human Use, Radioactive Drug, X-Ray, Quality
Assurance, Biological and Chemical Safety
2. Duties and Responsibilities of the RSO and Radiation Safety Office
3. Events Requiring Notification of Regulatory Bodies
4. Duties and Responsibilities of Radioactive Materials Permit Holders
5. Good Radiological Work Practices and Responsibilities of Radioactive Materials
Users
6. Maintaining Radiation Doses As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA)
7. Pregnant Radiation Workers
8. Inspections of Radioactive Materials Permit Holders
9. Addressing Violations of Regulatory and Institutional Radiation Safety Requirements
10. Performing and Documenting Radiological Surveys
11. Ordering and Receiving Radioactive Materials
12. Maintaining an Inventory of Radioactive Materials
13. Packaging and Disposal of Radioactive Waste
14. Release of Potentially Radioactive or Contaminated Materials for Unrestricted Use
15. Responding to Radiological Incidents
16. Occupational Dose Limits
17. Personnel Monitoring for Radiation Exposure
18. Requirements for Posting and Labeling Radiological Work Areas
19. Radiological Bioassay Programs and Requirements
20. Leak Testing of Radioactive Sealed Sources, Medical and Non-Medical
21. Calibrating Radiation Survey Instruments
22. Training Requirements for Radiation Safety Staff (Initial and refresher training,
special training – DOT, CDL, etc.)
23. Decommissioning Radiologically Posted Facilities
Section 2: Research Use of Radioactive Materials
1. Care and Handling of Animals Containing Radioactivity
2. Performing Maintenance on Contaminated or Potentially Contaminated Equipment
3. Shipping Packages of Radioactive Materials
4. Training Requirements for Research Users
5. Training Requirements for the Research Use of Irradiators and X-ray generating
equipment
6. Experimental Use of Radionuclides in Volatile Compounds
7. Storage, Handling, and Disposal of Radioactive Waste
8. Inspecting Research Equipment that Generates X-rays (electron microscopes, x-ray
diffractometers, etc.)
Section 3: Medical Use of Radioactive Materials
1. Medical Quality Assurance Programs
2. Auditing Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Oncology Programs
3. Radiation Safety Considerations for Patients Receiving Therapeutic Doses of
Radiopharmaceuticals
4. Radiation Safety Coverage of Patients Receiving Implants of Radioactive Sealed
Sources
5. Radiation Safety Considerations for Intravascular Brachytherapy Procedures
6. Requirements for the Use of External Beam Devices in Medical Treatment
7. Requirements for the Use of X-Ray Generating Equipment (CT, Fluoroscopy, X-Ray)
8. Radiation Safety Training of Medical Personnel (including x-ray safety)
9. Radioactive Waste from In- and Out-patients Receiving Radiopharmaceuticals
10. Minimizing Radiation Dose to Patients
11. Determining and Reporting Fetal Radiation Exposure from Diagnostic and
Therapeutic Medical Procedures
12. Release of patients administered radioactive materials
Section 4: Nuclear Research Research Reactors, Research Linear Accelerators,
Nuclear Fusion Research Facilities, Research Irradiators, and
Similar Facilities