Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation › Subchapter 20 - Radiation › Part 6 - Radiation Safety Requirements for Industrial Radiation Machines › Section 216-RICR-40-20-6.3 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Whenever used in this Part, the following
				  terms shall be construed as follows:
1. "Act"
				  means R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter
				  23-1.3 entitled "Radiation
				  Control."
2. "Agency" means Rhode
				  Island Radiation Control Agency (RCA), Center for Health Facilities Regulation
				  - Radiation Control Program, Rhode Island Department of Health.
3. "Bomb detection radiation machine" means
				  X-ray generating equipment used solely for the purpose of remotely detecting
				  explosive devices. This definition does not include hand-held X-ray bomb
				  detection equipment for the purposes of this Part.
4. "Cabinet X-ray system" means an X-ray
				  system with the X-ray tube installed in an enclosure (hereinafter termed
				  "cabinet") that is independent of existing architectural structures except the
				  floor. The cabinet X-ray system is 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. Included are all
				  X-ray systems designed primarily for the inspection of carry-on baggage at
				  airline, railroad, and bus terminals, and in similar facilities. An X-ray tube
				  used within a shielded part of a building, or X-ray equipment which may
				  temporarily or occasionally incorporate portable shielding is not considered a
				  cabinet X-ray system.
5. "Category
				  A industrial radiation machine" means a device capable of generating or
				  emitting fields of radiation in an open beam configuration during normal
				  conditions of use. This includes, but is not limited to, portable/handheld
				  fluorescence X-ray, fluoroscopy hand-held intensified, fluoroscopy X-ray, flash
				  X-ray, flash X-ray for bomb detection, spectrography X-ray, diffraction X-ray
				  and uncertified cabinet X-ray.
6.
				  "Category B industrial radiation machine" means a device capable of generating
				  or emitting fields of radiation where the beam is contained during normal
				  conditions of use. This includes, but is not limited to, package X-ray,
				  certified and certifiable cabinet X-ray, X-ray fluorescence units and similar
				  devices.
7. "Certifiable cabinet
				  X-ray system" means an existing uncertified X-ray system that has been modified
				  to meet the certification requirements specified in
				   21 C.F.R. §
												1020.40.
8. "Certified cabinet X-ray system" means an
				  X-ray system which has been certified in accordance with
				   21 C.F.R. §
												1010.2  as being manufactured
				  and assembled pursuant to the provisions of
				   21 C.F.R. §
												1020.40.
9. "Interlock" means a device arranged or
				  connected such that the occurrence of an event or condition is required before
				  a second event or condition can occur or continue to occur.
10. "Leakage radiation" means all radiation
				  coming from within the source housing, except the useful beam.
11. "Open-beam configuration" means an
				  analytical X-ray system in which an individual could accidentally place some
				  part of his body in the primary beam path during normal operation.
12. "Registrant" means any person who is
				  registered with the Agency and is legally obligated to register with the Agency
				  pursuant to this Subchapter and the Act.
13. "Registration" means registration with
				  the Agency pursuant to this Subchapter and the Act.