Page #viii of the Radiation Safety Training Manual covers the different topics included in the exams and all the material necessary to pass the exams is covered within the study manual. The manual should be available in your laboratory, for more detailed information on the Modular exams view the Radiation Safety Training Page.
Modules 3 & 5 require a Radiation Safety Manual and Radioactive Waste Disposal Manual. Module 2 requires a scientific calculator for a few questions that involve calculations.
It is strongly recommended to take the modules in order. However, if you are unable to do so, you may take the exams in any order.
Once the module exams are scored, an e-mail is sent out within two business days of the exam.
If you are unable to attend the scheduled sessions for Modules 1, 3, 4 & 5 at the Anschutz Medical Campus, you may arrange for a walk-in session at the Main Health and Safety offices in Building 401 room 202 by calling EHS at 4-0345 or e-mailing your request to RADTraining@ucdenver.edu. Because Module 2 session involves hands-on instruction, Module 2 is not offered on a walk-in basis.
You may submit a request for waste pick-up by email or by calling 303-724-0134 and leaving a voice message. The Radioactive Waste Pick-up Request form can be found on our Radiation Safety Forms page. Click here to access the our forms page. The form is available in both PDF and Word format. The PDF may be emailed by clicking the appropriate button at the bottom of the form. The Word document must be saved and emailed as an attachment. Waste pickup request forms should be emailed to radwaste@ucdenver.edu.
Contact our main office number at 303-724-0345 if you have additional questions regarding waste pickups.
Radioactive dry waste bags and scintillation vial trays are available at the Support Facility, Building R-30 during regular business hours: Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm. They may also be delivered during your scheduled waste pickup; you may request these by calling 724-0134 and leaving a voicemail message or by requesting these items on the Waste Pickup Request Form available on the Radiation Safety Forms page. Click here to access our forms page. The form is available in both PDF and Word format. The PDF may be emailed by clicking the appropriate button at the bottom of the form. The Word document must be saved and emailed as an attachment. Waste pickup request forms should be emailed to radwaste@ucdenver.edu.
Contact our main office number at 303-724-0345 if you have additional questions regarding waste pickups.
All purchase approval requests can be completed by using the Radioactive Materials Purchase Approval Form. The form is available in both PDF and Word format and can be found on our Forms page. Click here to access the Radiation Safety Forms page. The PDF may be emailed by clicking the appropriate button at the bottom of the form. The Word document must be saved and emailed as an attachment. Purchase request forms should be emailed to radpurchase@ucdenver.edu.
Contact our main office number at 303-724-0345 if you have additional questions regarding the purchase approval process.
When Radioactive Materials packages are received they are checked in by our staff. As soon as they are ready to be released, the Environmental Health and Safety staff will contact you to deliver the package to your laboratory.
You may contact Mark Garcia at 303-724-7962 to check if your package was received at our facility.
A film badge is not required to be worn when receiving C-14, S-35, or H-3. A film badge is required if the package is labeled with a Yellow II label. A good rule of thumb is: "If you have a film badge, you should wear it whenever in the presence of radioactive material."
Meters should be returned within two weeks, if not the lab should be notified by that time that there is some kind of problem, i.e., needs repair. If the lab does not have another meter and this time frame may be a problem please request a loaner meter and we will be happy to bring one to you until your meter is returned. Contact Tim Thorvaldson for any instrument inquiries at 303-724-0109.
If a lab has an active authorization then the survey meter must be calibrated annually, if there is no authorization and no other lab uses the meter for surveys you may request in writing to have the meter removed from our calibration schedule.
Please contact Tim Thorvaldson or call 303-724-0109 for advice.
Follow these steps:
- Pickup a free radiation safety publication binder from the Support Facility, building R-30. It is important to pickup the publications from the radiation safety office rather than downloading the manuals from our web site. We track all publications we provide to Principal Investigators to ensure that you receive the regular updates we make to the manuals. New Researcher
- Schedule a time to take the radiation safety training. As a PI, you will need to complete and pass all 5 training modules.
- Apply to the Committee on Ionizing Radiation for use of radioactive material. If you plan to perform non-human experiments complete the Application for Radioactive Materials Authorization (Non-Human Use) found on the Radiation Safety Forms page. Click here to access our forms page and download the appropriate application.
- Apply to the Radioactive Drug Research Committee.
- For human use complete an Application for Radioactive Materials Authorization (Human Use) found on the Radiation Safety Forms page. Click here to access our forms page and download the appropriate application.
- For more information about Radioactive Materials Authorizations call 303-724-0345
Call (303) 724-0234. The Radiation Safety Office is required to obtain a copy of the receiving parties Radioactive Materials License and properly package and label the material. Before calling the above number, please be prepared to provide the following information:
- The radiation safety office telephone number for the receiving party. If you do not have that information, please provide name of the institution. The radiation safety staff can help in looking up the information.
- Isotope, compound, activity, and RSO number of the material you plan to ship.
- Whether dry ice is required or not.
- Date you desire to ship the material.
- Please note that international shipments are extremely difficult due to other countries’ regulations and delivery companies’ constraints. The radiation safety office would make every effort to assist in shipping material internationally. However, we do not guarantee that it is always possible to ship internationally.
EHS will be collecting all waste containers before the laboratory moves (Decommissioning Labs and Equipment Disposal) and the containers will be delivered to the new laboratory at the Anschutz Medical Campus as soon as the initial inspection or new lab setup is performed and the lab is approved to receive radioactive materials. To schedule a lab setup, call Tim Thorvaldson at 303-724-0109 or the main number at 303-724-0345.
You must deface all radioactive material markings or cover them before the movers may move the shields and equipment.
As detailed in the Radiation Safety Manual, you are required to perform and document surveys according to the hazard class specified on your authorization document. It is also recommended as good practice that at least a portable survey instrument survey is performed on yourself and the area each time radioactive materials are handled in any fashion.
The laboratories should keep all formal survey records for at least three years.
A personal dosimeter for external whole-body exposure to penetrating radiations is required for:
- any person working directly with radioactive materials that emit gamma rays, and/or x rays, and/or beta particles with a maximum energy above 500 keV,
- any minor for whom a permission form is required under section 3.4.1.1 of the RSM, and
- any other person designated by the Committee on Ionizing Radiation.
- A thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) finger ring badge or other similar extremity monitor is required for any person who will directly handle vessels containing more than 1 mCi (37 MBq) of 32P or any other beta-emitting radionuclide with a maximum energy above 500 keV, and any person who will directly handle vessels containing more than 5 mCi (185 Mbq) of any radionuclide that emits gamma rays and/or x rays, unless that person is specifically exempted by the Radiation Safety Officer.
Please go to Services - Radiation Safety and scroll down the page. Click the button in the left column named “Authorization and Renewals”. The page requires a login and you will be prompted for your user name and password. You will need to type “university\” before your user name in the appropriate field.
After login, click the button on the left named "Authorization and Renewals". You should not need to login again. You may also scroll to the bottom of the page and click "View current authorizations". Either method will bring up a table of all current authorizations held by Principal Investigators. This information is updated at the beginning of each month.
Contact Jeremy Byble at 303-724-0128 for additional questions concerning radioactive materials authorizations.