La. Admin. Code tit. 33 § XV-2021

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section XV-2021 - Operating and Emergency Procedures

A. The licensee's or registrant's operating and emergency procedures shall include instructions in at least the following:

1. handling and use of sources of radiation to be employed so that no individual is likely to be exposed to radiation doses in excess of the standards established in Chapter 4 of these regulations;

2. methods and occasions for conducting radiation surveys;

3. methods and occasions for locking and securing sources of radiation;

4. personnel monitoring and the use of personnel monitoring equipment;

5. transportation to temporary jobsites and field stations, including the packaging and placing of sources of radiation in vehicles, placarding of vehicles, and securing sources of radiation during transportation;

6. minimizing exposure of individuals in the event of an accident;

7. procedure for notifying proper personnel in the event of an accident;

8. maintenance of records;

9. inspection and maintenance of source holders, logging tools, source-handling tools, storage containers, transport containers, and injection tools;

10. procedure to be followed in the event a sealed source is lodged downhole;

11. procedures to be used for picking up, receiving, and opening packages containing radioactive material;

12. for the use of tracers, decontamination of the environment, equipment, and personnel;

13. maintenance of records generated by logging personnel at temporary jobsites;

14. notifying proper persons in the event of an accident; and

15. actions to be taken if a sealed source is ruptured, including actions to prevent the spread of contamination and minimize inhalation and ingestion of radioactive material and actions to obtain suitable radiation survey instruments as required by LAC 33:XV.2013.

La. Admin. Code tit. 33, § XV-2021

Promulgated by the Department of Environmental Quality, Nuclear Energy Division, LR 13:569 (October 1987), amended by the Office of Air Quality and Radiation Protection, Radiation Protection Division, LR 18:34 (January 1992).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:2001 et seq.