Leak Testing

["Roman E. Fail, (RF)" <EHS5FAIL@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>]

Recently UCSB was inspected by the California DHS Rad. Health Branch, and as
usual a few violations were issued. One of them was regarding the frequency
of sealed source leak testing, more specifically that it was (and I quote)
"not (exactly) timely."   Both instances cited were sources that were
tested 13 or 14 days after the six-month anniversary of the last leak test.
The inspector stated that within 10 days was timely, but 14 was not.
This is not written in the California code of regulations anywhere that I can
find (California being an agreement state), and I was wondering if anyone
knows of similar problems or their resolution.  It seems to me that as things
are it is totally up to the individual inspector to decide what is reasonable
and that the next inspector could be even stricter!  Comments or suggestions?


Roman Fail
Radiation Safety Office
Univ. of Calif. at Santa Barbara