Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › RADIATION › Chapter 246-240 - Radiation protection Medical use of radioactive material › GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS › Section 246-240-078 - 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. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1)
(a) An individual identified on a department,
				  NRC, or an agreement state license; or a permit issued by a department, NRC, 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 authorized nuclear pharmacist on or before January 14,
				  2019, need not comply with the training requirements of WAC 246-240-069,
				  246-240-072, or 246-240-075, respectively except the radiation safety officers
				  and authorized medical physicists identified in this subsection must meet the
				  training requirements in WAC 246-240-069(4) or 246-240-072(3), as appropriate,
				  for any material or uses for which they were not authorized prior to this
				  date.
(b) 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 WAC 246-240-069 to be identified as a radiation safety
				  officer or as an associate radiation safety officer on a department, NRC, or an
				  agreement state license or NRC master material license permit for those
				  materials and uses that these individuals performed on or before October 24,
				  2005.
(c) 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 WAC
				  246-240-072, for those materials and uses that these individuals performed on
				  or before October 24, 2005.
(d) 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 NRC, need not comply with the training requirements of
				  WAC 246-240-069, 246-240-072 or 246-240-075, 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 subsection, 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.