<p> Radiation Safety Office Radiation Safety Clinical Building 159 Office 274-4797 Fax 274-2332 Waste 274-6746 E-mail: [email protected] Newsletter</p><p>Holiday Schedule Radionuclide Inventory NOVEMBER 2003 The RSO will be closed for the following holidays: Records Thanksgiving All Permit Holders are required to keep a running inventory of all radioactive  Thursday, November 27th ~ Upcoming Events ~ material on hand. We have found that  Friday, November 28th some individuals are now keeping their inventory on a computer. We do allow Radiation Safety Orientation Christmas this as long as the laboratory prints off a (CL 126)  Thursday, December 25th copy and places it in their Radionuclide Inventory and Survey Book on a November 14, 2003 New Years Day monthly basis. This allows easy access  st 9:30 am – 11:00 am Thursday, January 1 by the Radiation Safety Staff at the time of audits. December 12, 2003 Martin Luther King Day 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm  Monday, January 19th The inventory records should include all chemical forms. If a lab wishes to keep January 16, 2004 Many of the holidays fall on Thursdays separate sheets for each chemical form, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm and will result in the loss of waste pick- this is allowable, as long as a summary ups for those days. No additional waste sheet is included. pick-up days will be added to make up It should be noted that a lab should not ~ Radiation Safety Staff ~ for the Thursday holidays. Also, as in subtract totals from their inventory until the past, there will be no waste pick-up a waste disposal is made and our office Radiation Safety Officer scheduled during the Christmas holiday picks up the waste from the lab. Some Mack Richard, M.S., C.H.P. th week (December 25 through January labs subtract totals once an experiment st Assistant Radiation Safety Officers 1 ). Please keep this in mind when is completed, but not before waste Jeff Mason, B.S. placing orders and scheduling waste actually leaves the lab. Alisha Mahin, B.S. pick-ups. Kathi Haldeman, B.S. Health Physicist Congratulations Radiation Safety Training Mike Smith, B.S. We would like to congratulate Kathi on All new radioactive material users, Technician her recent marriage to Bryan Haldeman. including temporary personnel (e.g., Drew Wade, B.S. For correspondence, Kathi can still be summer students, interns, etc.), and Purchasing Agent reached via email at [email protected]. individuals previously approved who Judy Savage have left the university or have not been Secretary listed on a permit for a period of two Debbie Phillips Radiation Safety Office years or more are required to attend the Extreme Makeover Radiation Safety Orientation. A Radiation Safety Web Site completed Radiation Safety A-3 Form, http://www.iupui.edu/~radsafe Over the next few months the Radiation Authorization to Use Radioactive Safety Office will be receiving some Materials, should be submitted to the This newsletter is issued quarterly in February, May, August, and November. much needed up-dating. The entire RSO prior to the initial use of office will be painted and new flooring radioactive materials. After receiving laid. As a result, we are going to move this form, our office will send to a temporary area while this work is notification/RSVP for the next being completed. We hope to stay on orientation. In addition to attending the the first floor of the Clinical Building orientation, all new radioactive users during the renovation. Stay tuned for with inadequate training/experience further details and please be patient with with radionuclides must attend the us during this change. Radiation Safety Course. Temporary </p><p>PLEASE CIRCULATE AND FILE IN YOUR RADIONUCLIDE INVENTORY AND SURVEY BOOK employees (i.e., individuals working in a lab for less than 6 months) are required to complete the orientation but not the course. These individuals must be supervised during their work with radioactivity.</p>