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Training Criteria for Industrial Radiographers Working at UMB
1) At least 80 hours must be devoted to Initial training before appointment of responsibility as a radiographer. Following completion of initial training, trainees must be required to pass and examination. Initial training must cover the following radiation protection topics:
- Fundamentals of radiation physics
- Radiation quantities and units
- Fundamentals of radiation biology
- Chronic and acute effects of radiation
- Dose limits for radiation workers
- Role of time, distance and shielding in radiation protection
- Survey meters and personal monitoring devices, instrument calibration, leak tests
- Types of emergencies
- personnel overexposure
- equipment malfunction
- lost sources
- exposures of non-radiography personnel and the public
- Emergency plans and responses, follow-up
- Case histories: accidents in industrial radiography
- Laboratory exercises
2) Before given independent responsibilities as a radiographer, on the job training must be completed. On the job training must cover, with special attention to emergency procedures:
- Operation of radiography equipment
- Operation of safety/monitoring equipment
- Area layout and postings
- Radiation protection record keeping
- personnel dose records
- receiving/shipping records
- inventory
- decay curves
- source utilization log
- leak test records
- source disposal records
- survey meter calibrations
- area layout
- Emergency procedures
- equipment malfunctions
- lost or damaged source
- overexposures
3) Refresher training must be given on a semi-annual basis and after changes in equipment, procedures or regulations. |
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