South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL › Subchapter 61-63 - Radioactive Materials (Title A) › Part IV - USE OF RADIONUCLIDES IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS › Subpart B - GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS › Section 61-63.IV.B.RHA 4.23 - Training for Experienced Radiation Safety Officer, Teletherapy or Medical Physicist, Authorized Medical Physicist, Authorized User, Nuclear Pharmacist, and Authorized Nuclear Pharmacist

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
4.23.1 Training for Experienced Radiation
				  Safety Officer, Teletherapy or Medical Physicist, and Nuclear Pharmacist.
4.23.1.1 An individual identified on a
				  Nuclear Regulatory Commission or an Agreement State license or a permit issued
				  by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission or an 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
				  RHA 4.20, RHA 4.21, or RHA
				  4.22, respectively, except the Radiation Safety Officers and authorized medical
				  physicists identified in this paragraph must meet the training requirements in
				  RHA 4.20.4 or RHA 4.21.3,
				  as appropriate, for any material or uses for which they were not authorized
				  prior to this date.
4.23.1.2 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
				  RHA 4.20 to be identified as
				  a Radiation
Safety Officer or as an Associate Radiation Safety Officer
					 on a Nuclear Regulatory Commission or an 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.
4.23.1.3 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
				  RHA 4.21, for those
				  materials and uses that these individuals performed on or before October 24,
				  2005.
4.23.1.4 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 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 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, need not comply with the training
				  requirements of
				  RHA 4.20, RHA 4.21, or RHA
				  4.22, 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 this paragraph, 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 this
				  chapter.