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Radioactive Material Permit Holder Requirements
To be identified as a permit holder on a non-human radioactive material permit, an individual must have extensive prior training and experience with radioactive material. The applicant’s training and experience must at a minimum satisfy the following requirements.
- An advanced degree in the physical sciences, biological sciences, engineering, or equivalent training and experience.
- At least 40 hours of training and experience in the following:
- Safe handling of radioactive material.
- Characteristics of ionizing radiation.
- Units of radiation dose and quantities of radioactive material.
- Radiation detection instrumentation.
- Biological hazards of exposure to radiation appropriate to the type and forms to be used.
- Note that applicants who do not meet these criteria are required to work under the supervision of an approved permit holder until they have sufficient experience.
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Credentials
To be identified as a permit holder on a non-human radioactive material permit, an individual must be one of the following:
- UW-Madison tenure track faculty,
- Research professor,
- Academic staff on Clinical Track or Clinical Health Sciences Track,
- Academic staff serving as principal investigator on an active grant or contract, or
- Academic staff in charge of core radiological use facilities.
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Exceptions
Circumstances may occur where a researcher does not fall into one of the categories from Section 2. These may include the following:
- Radioactive material permits may be approved for employees of agencies external to UW-Madison where the use of radioactive material at specific agency sites is covered by the UW-Madison broadscope license. These external agencies and approved sites are currently listed under Condition 10.A of the Wisconsin radioactive material license, 025-1323-01.
- Emerit faculty researchers who are in a paid status and authorized by the department to continue to participate in research may hold a radioactive material permit. Such individuals shall submit written approval from the center director or dean to serve as a permit holder for a radioactive material permit. This approval shall include a commitment by director or dean to remediate the radiological hazards remaining upon disengagement of the emerit faculty member, including any costs associated with decontaminating facilities and waste disposal.
- Emerit faculty researchers who are in an unpaid status are not authorized to serve as permit holders for radioactive material permits. However, should they desire to continue to participate in the research they may serve as a radiation worker under the supervision of an approved permit holder who satisfies the requirements of this policy. To do so they must also obtain written approval from the department or center director, chair, or dean to serve as a radiation worker on a radioactive material permit. This approval shall include a commitment by director or dean to remediate the radiological hazards remaining upon disengagement of the emerit faculty member, including any costs associated with decontaminating facilities and waste disposal.
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Authority
The Campus Radiation Safety Committee has ultimate authority to reject an application of an individual to become a permit holder on a non-human use radioactive material permit, or to revoke a permit that has already been issued, regardless of the applicant’s ability to meet the criteria above if determined, in its sole discretion, that the applicant or permit holder has failed to adhere to applicable laws, policies, or safety practices creating a significant regulatory or safety risk.
