Radiation

• Overview
• Radiation safety at UTS
• Support at UTS
• Resources

Overview

Licenses

Individuals using or possessing radiation apparatus or radioactive substances must have a radiation licence from the NSW Government Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW).

Registration

Prescribed radiation apparatus, sealed source devices and premises where a radioactive substance not contained in a sealed source device is kept or used must be registered with the DECCW.

Radiation safety at UTS

The details of the radiation safety program at UTS are closely monitored by the radiation safety officer.

If you intend to work with radiaoactive materials or apparatus then contact either the:

• UTS Biosafety Committee, or
• UTS radiation safety officer.

Signage

Radiation signage must be conspicuously displayed in the immediate vicinity of the apparatus or substance.

Print on yellow paper and laminate the:
Radiation sign (PDF, 105kB)

Support at UTS

Contact:

• David Lloyd-Jones, Safety & Wellbeing for more information.
• UTS radiation safety officer:
  Bill Booth
  Technical services, Faculty of Science
  ph: +61 (02) 9514 4107
  email: Bill.Booth@uts.edu.au
  for information on unsealed sources.

Resources

Australian Standard

• Australian Standard AS 2211:2004 Safety of Laser Products
• Australian Standard AS 2243.4:1998 Safety in Laboratories - Ionizing Radiation
• Australian Standard AS 2243.5:2004 Safety in Laboratories - Non-ionizing radiation - Electromagnetic, sound and ultrasound

State government legislation

• NSW Radiation Control Act 1990 (opens an external site)
• NSW Radiation Control Regulation 2003 (opens an external site)

Environment, Climate Change and Water NSW

• Radiation control (opens an external site)
  Environment Protection Agency

Australasian Radiation Protection Society

• http://www.arps.org.au/ (opens an external site)

Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism (Australian Government)

• Radioactive Waste Management (opens an external site)

International

• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (opens an external site)

• Radiation Safety Training and Reference Manual (opens an external site)
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• Periodic table for all known isotopes with information on each isotope (opens an external site)
  Lund University, Sweden

• Berkeley Laboratory's Periodic Table of the Isotopes (opens an external site)
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory