Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 105 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH › Title 105 CMR 120.000 - The Control of Radiation › GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS › Section 120.528 - Training for Experienced Radiation Safety Officer, Teletherapy or Medical Physicist, Authorized Medical Physicist, Authorized User, Nuclear Pharmacist, and Authorized Nuclear Pharmacist

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(A)
(1) An individual identified on an Agency,
				Nuclear Regulatory Commission or Agreement State license or a permit issued by
				an Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission or Agreement State broad scope
				licensee or master material license permit or by a master material license
				permittee of broad scope as a Radiation Safety Officer, a teletherapy or
				medical physicist, an authorized medical physicist, a nuclear pharmacist or an
				authorized nuclear pharmacist on or before January 14, 2019 need not comply
				with the training requirements of
				105 CMR
				120.524,
				120.525,
				or
				120.526,
				respectively, except the Radiation Safety Officers and authorized medical
				physicists identified in 105 CMR 120.528(A)(1) must meet the training
				requirements in
				105 CMR
				120.524(D)  or
				120.525(C),
				as appropriate, for any material or uses for which they were not authorized
				prior to this date.
(2) Any
				individual certified by the American Board of Health Physics in Comprehensive
				Health Physics; American Board of Radiology; American Board of Nuclear
				Medicine; American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine; Board of
				Pharmaceutical Specialties in Nuclear Pharmacy; American Board of Medical
				Physics in radiation oncology physics; Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
				of Canada in nuclear medicine; American Osteopathic Board of Radiology; or
				American Osteopathic Board of Nuclear Medicine on or before October 24, 2005,
				need not comply with the training requirements of
				105 CMR
				120.524 to be identified as a Radiation
				Safety Officer or as an Associate Radiation Safety Officer on an Agency,
				Nuclear Regulatory Commission or Agreement State license or Nuclear Regulatory
				Commission master material license permit for those materials and uses that
				these individuals performed on or before October 24, 2005.
(3) Any individual certified by the American
				Board of Radiology in therapeutic radiological physics, Roentgen ray and gamma
				ray physics, X-ray and radium physics, or radiological physics, or certified by
				the American Board of Medical Physics in radiation oncology physics, on or
				before October 24, 2005, need not comply with the training requirements for an
				authorized medical physicist described in
				105 CMR
				120.525, for those materials and uses that
				these individuals performed on or before October 24, 2005.
(4) A Radiation Safety Officer, a medical
				physicist, or a nuclear pharmacist, who used only accelerator-produced
				radioactive materials, discrete sources of radium-226, or both, for medical
				uses or in the practice of nuclear pharmacy at a Federal Government agency or
				Federally recognized Indian Tribe before November 30, 2007 or at all other
				locations of use before August 8, 2009, or an earlier date as noticed by the
				NRC, need not comply with the training requirements of
				105 CMR
				120.524,
				120.525
				or
				120.526,
				respectively, when performing the same uses. A nuclear pharmacist, who prepared
				only radioactive drugs containing accelerator-produced radioactive materials,
				or a medical physicist, who used only accelerator-produced radioactive
				materials, at the locations and during the time period identified in 105 CMR
				120.528(A)(4), qualifies as an authorized nuclear pharmacist or an authorized
				medical physicist, respectively, for those materials and uses performed before
				these dates, for the purposes of
				105 CMR
				120.500.