Re: Student Use of Radiation

["Tom Kellogg" <TKELLOGG@cosmos.uvm.edu>]

> Subject:       Student Use of Radiation

> I have been asked to gather information about how different colleges and
> universities (in particular, the Radiation Safety Office, Health Physics Office,
> etc.) handle safety in student (academic not research) laboratories which use
> sealed sources, radiation producing machinery, radioactive biological tracers,
> etc.
> 
> Are formal procedures implimented at the institution (If so, what are
> they), or are the faculty left to their own devices?

Here at the University of Vermont we have a 1.5 hour presentation 
with a 44 multiple choice exam given at each course that uses unsealed 
radiation sources.  (This is the same exam that must be taken by all 
persons that use radiation at the University.) For sealed source use we give
a 1 - 2 hour safety lecture.  Film and ring badges are given to the students 
as needed.  The professors know that if they are going to use radiation sources 
in their undergraduate labs the RSO must be scheduled into one, or part of one
of their labs.

Tom Kellogg

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Thomas L. Kellogg                   Phone :  (802) 656-2570
Radiation Safety Office               FAX :  (802) 656-8876
University of Vermont              E-mail :  TKELLOGG@cosmos.uvm.edu

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