Section 157.53. Requirements for personnel safety.

 

(1)   Training requirements.

(a) A licensee or registrant may not permit an individual to act as a well logging supervisor until the individual has done all of the following:

1. Completed training incorporating the subjects outlined in Appendix J and demonstrated an understanding of the subject matter by successful completion of a written examination.

2. Read and received instruction in the requirements contained in this subchapter and subchs. I , III and X or their equivalent from another state or the NRC, conditions of appropriate license or certificate of registration and the licensee's or registrant's operating and emergency procedures and demonstrated an understanding of the subject matter by successful completion of a written examination.

3. Completed on the job training and demonstrated competence during actual well logging operations to use sources of radiation, related handling tools and radiation survey instruments that will be used on the job.

(b) A licensee or registrant may not permit an individual to assist in the handling of sources of radiation until the individual has done both of the following:

1. Read or received instruction in the requirements contained in this subchapter and subchs. I , III and X , and the licensee's operating and emergency procedures and demonstrated an understanding of the subject matter by successful completion of an oral or written test.

2. Demonstrated competence to use, under the personal supervision of the well logging supervisor, the sources of radiation, related handling tools and radiation survey instruments that will be used on the job.

(c) A licensee or registrant shall maintain employee training records for inspection by the department for 3 years following termination of the individual's employment.

(d) A licensee or registrant shall provide safety reviews for well logging supervisors and well logging assistants at least once during each calendar year.

(2)   Operating and emergency procedures. A licensee's or registrant's operating and emergency procedures shall include instructions in at least all of the following:

(a) Handling and use of sources of radiation to be employed so that no individual is likely to be exposed to radiation doses in excess of the standards established in subch. III .

(b) Methods and occasions for conducting radiation surveys.

(c) Methods and occasions for locking and securing sources of radiation.

(d) Personnel monitoring and the use of personnel monitoring equipment.

(e) Transportation of radioactive sources to temporary job sites and field stations, including the packaging and placing of sources of radiation in vehicles, placarding of vehicles and securing sources of radiation during transportation to prevent loss, tampering or unauthorized removal.

(f) Minimizing exposure of individuals in the event of an accident.

(g) Procedure for notifying the proper personnel in the event of an accident.

(h) Maintenance of records.

(i) Use, inspection and maintenance of source holders, well logging tools, source handling tools, storage containers, transport containers, injection tools, sealed sources and uranium sinker bars.

(j) Procedure to be followed in the event a sealed source is lodged in a well-bore.

(k) Procedures to be used for picking up, receiving and opening packages containing radioactive material.

(L) Procedures for using tracers and decontaminating the environment, equipment and personnel.

(m) Maintenance of records generated by well logging personnel at temporary job sites.

(n) Notifying proper persons in the event of an accident.

(o) Actions to be taken if a sealed source is ruptured, including actions to prevent the spread of contamination and minimize inhalation and ingestion of radioactive material, and actions to obtain suitable radiation survey instruments as required by s. DHS 157.52 (4) .

(3)   Personnel monitoring.

(a) A licensee or registrant may not permit an individual to act as a well logging supervisor or to assist in the handling of sources of radiation unless the individual wears either a film badge or a thermoluminescent dosimeter or similar approved device. Each film badge or TLD shall be assigned to and worn by only one individual. Film badges shall be replaced at least monthly and TLDs replaced at least quarterly. After replacement, each film badge or TLD shall be promptly processed.

(b) Personnel monitoring records, including bioassay records if required by the license, shall be maintained for inspection until the department authorizes disposition.

CR 01-108 : cr. Register July 2002 No. 559 , eff. 8-1-02; CR 06-021 : am. (1) (a) 1. and 2., cr. (1) (d) Register October 2006 No. 610 , eff. 11-1-06; CR 09-062 : am. (1) (a) 1. Register April 2010 No. 652 , eff. 5-1-10.