Radiation Safety Program Requirements: What Employers Need to Include

If you use radioactive materials, x-ray equipment, accelerators, or other ionizing radiation sources, you are expected to run a formal radiation safety program. At the federal level, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires each licensee to develop, document, implement, and review a radiation protection program that keeps occupational and public exposures as low as reasonably achievable, known as ALARA, and to review that program at least annually.