Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-7-705 - Authority and Responsibilities for the Radiation Protection Program
A. A licensee's
management shall appoint in writing a Radiation Safety Officer, who agrees, in
writing, to be responsible for implementing the radiation protection program.
The licensee, through the Radiation Safety Officer, shall ensure that radiation
safety activities are being performed in accordance with licensee-approved
procedures and regulatory requirements. A licensee's management may appoint, in
writing, one or more Associate Radiation Safety Officers to support the
Radiation Safety Officer. The Radiation Safety Officer, with written agreement
of the licensee's management, must assign the specific duties and tasks to each
Associate Radiation Safety Officer. These duties and tasks are restricted to
the types of use for which the Associate Radiation Safety Officer is listed on
a license. The Radiation Safety Officer may delegate duties and tasks to the
Associate Radiation Safety Officer but shall not delegate the authority or
responsibilities for implementing the radiation protection program. Each time
the Radiation Safety Officer is changed, the licensee shall provide to the
Department within 30 days an amendment request and a copy of the correspondence
between the licensee's management and the candidate, accepting the position of
Radiation Safety Officer.
B.
Licensees that are authorized for two or more different types of uses of
radioactive material listed in Groups 300, 400, 600, and 1,000, or two or more
types of units under group 600 or 1,000, shall establish a Radiation Safety
Committee (RSC) to oversee all uses of radioactive material permitted by the
license. At a minimum, the RSC shall include an authorized user of each type of
use permitted by the license, the Radiation Safety Officer, a representative of
the nursing service, and a representative of management who is neither an
authorized user nor a Radiation Safety Officer.
C. If a licensee or applicant is not a health
care institution and is unable to meet the RSC membership requirements in
subsection (B), the licensee or applicant may request an exemption in
accordance with A.R.S. §
30-654(B)(13).
The request for exemption shall be made to the Department in writing and list
the reasons why the health care institution is unable to meet the
requirements.
D. A licensee shall
ensure that the RSC meets, at a minimum, on an annual basis and maintain the
RSC meeting minutes for Department review for three years after the date of the
RSC meeting.
E. A licensee shall
notify the Department no later than 30 days after:
1. An authorized user, an authorized nuclear
pharmacist, a Radiation Safety Officer, an Associate Radiation Safety Officer,
an authorized medical physicist, or ophthalmic physicist permanently
discontinues performance of duties under the license or has a name
change;
2. The licensee permits an
individual qualified to be a Radiation Safety Officer under R9-7-710 to
function as a temporary Radiation Safety Officer and to perform the functions
of a Radiation Safety Officer;
3.
The licensee's mailing address changes;
4. The licensee's name changes, but the name
change does not constitute a transfer of control of the license as described in
R9-7-313(B);
5. The licensee has
added to or changed the areas of use identified in the application or on the
license where by product material is used in accordance with
R9-7-301, if the change
does not include addition or relocation of either an area where PET
radionu-clides are produced or a PET radioactive drug delivery line from the
PET radionuclide/PET radioactive drug production area; or
6. The licensee obtains a sealed source for
use in manual brachytherapy from a different manufacturer or with a different
model number than authorized by its license for which it did not require a
license amendment as provided in
R9-7-701. The
notification must include the manufacturer and model number of the sealed
source, the isotope, and the quantity per sealed source.
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