Section 410IAC5-9-10. Monitoring systems

 

                                (a) There shall be available at each particle accelerator facility appropriate portable monitoring equipment which is operable and has been appropriately calibrated for the radiations being produced at the facility. Such equipment shall be tested for proper operation daily and calibrated at intervals not to exceed one year and after each servicing and repair.

                                (b) A radiation protection survey shall be performed and documented by, a qualified radiation or health physicist when changes have been made in shielding operation, equipment or occupancy of adjacent areas.

                                (c) Radiation levels in all high radiation areas shall be continuously monitored. The monitoring system shall be electrically independent of the accelerator control and safety interlock systems and capable of providing a readout at the control panel.

                                (d) All area monitors shall be calibrated at intervals not to exceed 1 year and after each servicing and repair.

                                (e) Whenever applicable, periodic surveys shall be made to determine the amount of airborne particulate radioactivity present.

                                (f) Whenever applicable, periodic smear surveys shall be made to determine the degree of contamination.

                                (g) All area surveys shall be made in accordance with the written procedures established by a qualified radiation or health physicist or the radiation safety officer.

                                (h) Records of all radiation protection surveys, calibrations and instrumentation tests shall be maintained at the accelerator facility for inspection by the board. (Indiana State Department of Health; Rule HRH-2, PT I, Sec I.10; filed May 26, 1978, 3:30 pm: 1 IR 226; filed Feb 29, 1984, 10:10 am: 7 IR 975; readopted filed Jul 11, 2001, 2:23 p.m.: 24 IR 4234; readopted filed May 22, 2007, 1:44 p.m.: 20070613-IR-410070141RFA; readopted filed Sep 11, 2013, 3:19 p.m.: 20131009-IR-410130346RFA)