7 AAC 18.340 - Records

(a) A registrant shall maintain a record of the occupational radiation exposure history for each individual that personnel monitoring is required under 7 AAC 18.280 on a form prescribed and provided by the department, or on a clear and legible record containing all the information specified in this subsection. The form must document each period of time after the individual attained the age of 18 in which the individual received an occupational dose of radiation, and be signed by both the individual and the registrant, or the radiation safety officer, when updated on an annual basis. The form must contain the following information regarding the individual:

(1) individual's name;

(2) date of birth;

(3) previous employment involving radiation exposure;

(4) dates of employment;

(5) periods of exposure;

(6) previous dose history, including

(A) deep dose equivalent;

(B) lens dose equivalent;

(C) shallow dose equivalent whole body;

(D) shallow dose equivalent maximum extremity;

(E) committed dose equivalent;

(F) committed dose equivalent maximally exposed organ;

(G) total effective dose equivalent; and

(H) total organ dose equivalent.

(b) In the preparation of the occupational radiation exposure history under this section, the registrant shall make a reasonable effort to obtain reports from other current or previous employers to establish the individual's previously accumulated occupational dose. For each period that the registrant obtains reports, the registrant shall use the dose shown in the report in preparing the form.

(c) Upon termination of employment of an individual, a registrant shall, upon request, supply the individual and the department with copies of all records compiling information concerning that individual's radiation exposure, including statements of any circumstances in which the dose to the employee from any source of ionizing radiation exceeded the limits specified in this chapter. Employee records must be kept available for inspection by the department during the tenure of employment of an employee and for at least the three years immediately after the employee leaves employment.

(d) A registrant shall maintain records in the same units used in this chapter, showing the results of surveys required to comply with 7 AAC 18.270.

(e) Repealed 7/1/2015.

(f) Copies of all records required under this section must be transferred to the department if the registrant terminates the registrant's business operations and at other times determined by the department.

Notes

7 AAC 18.340

Eff. 4/9/2009, Register 190; am 7/1/2015, Register 214, July 2015

For the purpose of transferring records under 7 AAC 18.340, the department's contact information is Department of Health and Social Services, Radiological Health Program, 5455 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Avenue, Suite 168, Anchorage, AK 99507-1270; telephone: (907) 334-2100; fax: (907) 334-2161.

Authority:AS 18.60.475

AS 18.60.485