California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 1 - State Department of Health Services › Chapter 5 - Sanitation (Environmental) › Subchapter 4 - Radiation › Group 3 - Standards for Protection Against Radiation › Article 6 - Special Requirements for Radiographic Operations in Industrial Radiography › Section 30330 - Definitions Specific to Industrial Radiography

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The definitions in section
						30100 apply to this article.
(b) As used in this article:
(1) "Annual refresher safety training" means
						training conducted or provided by a licensee or registrant for its employees on
						radiation safety aspects of industrial radiography including the topics specified in
						sections 30333(d) or
						30336.1(q);
(2) "Associated equipment" means equipment that is
						used in conjunction with a radiographic exposure device to make radiographic
						exposures that drives, guides, or comes in contact with the sealed source (e.g.,
						guide tube, control tube, control cable, removable source stop, "J" tube and
						collimator when it is used as an exposure head);
(3) "Cabinet X-ray system" means an X-ray system
						with the X-ray tube installed in an enclosure independent of existing architectural
						structures except the floor on which it may be placed and intended to contain at
						least that portion of a material being irradiated, provide radiation attenuation,
						and exclude personnel from its interior during generation of radiation. An X-ray
						tube used within a shielded part of a building, or X-ray equipment that may
						temporarily or occasionally incorporate portable shielding, is not considered a
						cabinet X-ray system;
(4) "Collimator"
						means a radiation shield that is placed on the end of the guide tube or directly
						onto a radiographic exposure device to restrict the size of the radiation beam when
						the sealed source is cranked into position to make a radiographic
						exposure;
(5) "Control cable" means the
						cable that is connected to the source assembly and used to drive the source to and
						from the exposure location;
(6) "Control
						mechanism" means a device that enables the source assembly to be moved to and from
						the radiographic exposure device;
(7)
						"Control tube" means a protective sheath for guiding the control cable, which
						connects the control mechanism to the radiographic exposure device;
(8) "Exposure head" means a device that locates
						the sealed source in the selected working position;
(9) "Field radiography" means industrial
						radiography using a radiation machine but excludes cabinet X-ray systems and
						shielded-room radiography machines;
(10)
						"Field station" means a facility where licensed material may be stored or used and
						from which equipment is dispatched;
(11)
						"Guide tube" means a flexible or rigid tube (i.e., "J" tube) for guiding the source
						assembly and the attached control cable from the radiographic exposure device to the
						exposure head;
(12) "Identification
						card" (ID) means either an ID card issued by:
(A)
						A licensee, pursuant to section
						30333(b)(2),
						designating the individual as a radioactive materials radiographer's
						assistant;
(B) A registrant, pursuant to
						section 30336.5, designating the individual as
						a radiation machine radiographer's assistant; or
(C) The Department indicating the individual is
						certified pursuant to sections
						30335.2 or
						30335.4;
(13) "Industrial radiography" means the
						examination of the physical structure, but not the microscopic structure, or
						elemental or chemical composition, of materials, other than human beings or animals,
						by nondestructive testing, utilizing radiation;
(14) "Permanent radiographic installation" means a
						shielded installation or structure designed or intended for industrial radiography
						and in which industrial radiography is performed;
(15) "Practical examination" means a demonstration
						through practical application of the safety rules and principles in industrial
						radiography including use of all appropriate equipment and procedures;
(16) "Radiation Safety Officer" means an
						individual with the responsibility for the overall radiation safety program on
						behalf of the:
(A) Licensee and who meets the
						requirements of section
						30333.07; or
(B) Registrant and who meets the requirements of
						section 30336.7;
(17) "Radiographer" means any individual who
						performs radiographic operations or who, while in attendance at the site where
						radiographic operations are being performed, personally supervises such operations
						and who is responsible to the user for assuring compliance with the requirements of
						this regulation, license or registration conditions and is certified pursuant to
						sections 30335.2 or
						30335.4 or is in compliance with
						section 30335.3;
(18) "Radiographer certification" means written
						approval from a certifying entity listed in section
						30335.3(b), certifying
						that the individual has satisfactorily met the requirements to be a
						radiographer;
(19) "Radiographer
						trainer" means a radiographer who meets the requirements of sections
						30333.05 or
						30336.6;
(20) "Radiographer's assistant" means any
						individual who has met the requirements of sections
						30333(b) or
						30336.5(a)(1) and who
						must be under personal supervision as required by sections
						30333(c) or
						30336.1(o);
(21) "Radiographic exposure device" means any
						device containing a sealed source used to make a radiograph;
(22) "Radiographic operations" means all
						activities associated with the presence of radiation machines or radioactive sources
						for the performance of industrial radiography (except when being transported by a
						common or contract transport), and includes surveys to confirm the adequacy of
						boundaries, setting up equipment and any activity inside a restricted
						area;
(23) "Radiographic personnel"
						means any radiographer, radiographer trainer, or radiographer's assistant;
(24) "Shielded position" means the location within
						the radiographic exposure device or source changer where the sealed source is
						secured and restricted from movement;
(25) "Shielded-room radiography" means industrial
						radiography using a radiation machine such that irradiation of the material occurs
						in an enclosed room designed to allow admittance of individuals and the room meets
						the requirements of subsections (d), (e) and (h) of section
						30336;
(26) "Source assembly" means an assembly that
						consists of the sealed source and a connector that attaches the source to the
						control cable;
(27) "Source changer"
						means a device designed and used for replacement of sealed sources in radiographic
						exposure devices, including those also used for transporting and storage of sealed
						sources;
(28) "Storage area" means any
						location, facility, or vehicle which is used to store, to transport, or to secure a
						radiographic exposure device, a storage container, or a sealed source when it is not
						in use and which is locked or has a physical barrier to prevent accidental exposure,
						tampering with, or unauthorized removal of the device, container, or
						source;
(29) "Storage container" means a
						container in which sealed sources are secured and stored;
(30) "S-tube" means a tube through which the
						radioactive source travels when inside a radiographic exposure device;
(31) "Temporary jobsite" means a location where
						radiographic operations are conducted and where licensed material may be stored
						other than those location(s) of use authorized on the license.