NAC459.337. Surveys and monitoring.

     1. Each licensee and registrant shall make, or cause to be made, surveys that:

     (a) Are necessary for the licensee or registrant to comply with NAC 459.010 to 459.950, inclusive; and

     (b) Are necessary under the circumstances to evaluate:

          (1) The magnitude and extent of radiation levels;

          (2) Concentrations or quantities of radioactive material; and

          (3) The potential radiological hazards.

     2. The Division may exempt a licensee or registrant from the requirements of subsection 1 if the Division determines that the exemption will not result in a significant risk to public health and safety.

     3. The licensee or registrant shall ensure that instruments and equipment used for quantitative radiation measurements are calibrated for the radiation measured at intervals not to exceed 12 months.

     4. All personnel dosimeters, except for direct and indirect reading pocket ionization chambers and those dosimeters used to measure the dose to any extremity, that require processing to determine the dose of radiation and that are used by licensees and registrants to comply with NAC 459.325, with other applicable provisions of NAC 459.010 to 459.950, inclusive, or with conditions specified in a license or registration, must be processed and evaluated by a dosimetry processor who is accredited by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology for the type of radiation or radiations included in the program that most closely approximate the type of radiation for which the person wearing the dosimeter is monitored.

     5. The licensee or registrant shall ensure that adequate precautions are taken to prevent a deceptive exposure of personnel monitoring equipment.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 1-18-94; A by R084-98, 1-26-99; A by Dep’t of Human Resources by R137-01, 5-30-2003; A by Bd. of Health by R149-07, 1-30-2008; R185-08, 5-7-2010)