Arizona Administrative Code › Title 9 - HEALTH SERVICES › Chapter 7 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES - RADIATION CONTROL › Article 7 - MEDICAL USES OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL › Section R9-7-705 - Authority and Responsibilities for the Radiation Protection Program

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
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.