Vanderbilt University Radiation Safety Committee (VU RSC)

• Radioactive Materials Permit
• Charge
• Committee Members
• Management Structure

Meets: Biannually.

Radioactive Material Permit:

See the Principal Investigator (PI) Permit to Use Radioactive Material page for the permit application and information on how to apply. 

Charge: 

The Radiation Safety Committee (RSC) will ensure that radioactive material, licensed under the broadscope radioactive material license, and ionizing radiation producing equipment (i.e. x-ray equipment, fluoroscopes, accelerators, etc.) are used safely, and in compliance with State of Tennessee and federal regulations, broadscope license conditions, and certified registrations. The RSC must also; (1) review and approve or disapprove users and uses of licensed material; (2) review recommendations on ways to maintain individual and collective doses as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA); (3) review biannually, a summary of the occupational radiation dose records (ALARA report) of all personnel working with licensed material; (4) review biannually all incidents involving licensed materials with respect to cause and subsequent actions taken; and (5) review annually the radiation safety program.

RSC Members