Resources & Links
Download Monthly Newsletter documents:
- February 2024 – OSHA Injury Reporting FactSheet
- October 2023 – AmRedCross Fire Preparedness Checklist
– OSHA Fire Safety FactSheet - September 2023 – OSHA Worker Rights poster
– 10 Easy Things to Get Program Started.pdf - August 2023 – JJ Keller Safety Management Suite flyer
- July 2023 – OSHA Prevent Heat Illness.pdf
- June 2023 – OSHA Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs.pdf
- April, May 2023 – NC Regulations for Protection Against Radiation.pdf
Links to resources for those working in the field of radiation safety:
Health Physics Software Resources
- Laser Safety Resources
- Laser Institute of America
- Laser Industry Links
Professional Societies/Associations and Industry Related Support Groups
- Academy of Laser Dentistry (ALD)
- American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS)
- Board of Laser Safety (BLS)
- British Medical Laser Association (BMLA)
- Chinese Optical Society (LPC-COS)
- European Laser Institute (ELI)
- Fabricators & Manufacturers Association (FMA)
- German Scientific Association (WLT)
- International Laser Display Association (ILDA)
- Materials Research Society (MRS)
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
- SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering
Laser Related Laboratories
- The National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC)
- Laser Safety Database from LZH
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore Laboratories
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
Agencies
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration (LIA OSHA Alliance)
- Department Of Energy (DOE)
- Environmental Protection Agency
- FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health
- National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- National Institutes of Health
- U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (CHPPM)
- U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
- U.S. National Science Foundation
- U.S. Army Research Laboratory
- U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- U.S. Small Business Administration, Small Business Innovation Research Program
- Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Non-Ionizing Radiation Resources
Ionizing Radiation Safety Resources
Nuclear Data and Sealed Sources
- Chart of the Nuclides on-line
- Nuclear Data from NuDat
- Map of the Nuclides
- Exploring isotopes – Chart of the Nuclides
- Isotope Use Guides
- Radioactive Sealed Sources and Devices – SS&D
- Tables of X-Ray Mass Attenuation and Mass Energy-Absorption Coefficients
- NIST X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Attenuation Coefficients
- Mucal on the web, a program to calculate x-ray absorption coefficients
- Neutron Cross Section
- BNL Nuclear Data Wallet Cards
- Reaction Cross Sections
- NNDC at BNL
- More Nuclear Information Resource Listing
- Atomic Masses
- Research Related Databases and resources
- NIST X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Attenuation Coefficients
- Gamma Energy
- Web Elements (Periodic Table)
- Increased Controls for Licensees that Possess Sources Containing Radioactive Material Quantities of Concern
- Sources Containing Radioactive Material Quantities of Concern -Fingerprints
- Federal and State Regulatory Resources
Federal Regulatory Agencies
- DOE
- NRC
- NRC Orders for increased controls
- DOT
- FDA
- EPA
- OSHA
- Federal Agencies
- Federal Rules, Orders, Regulations
- Regulations dot Gov
Federal Regulations
- Federal Rules, Orders, Regulations
- The Code of Federal Regulations: Title 10 — Energy
- 10CFR 20: Standards for Protection Against Radiation
- 10CFR 30: Rules of General Applicability to Domestic Licensing of Byproduct Material
- U.S. Code of Federal Regulations
- 10CFR 30.72 Schedule C — Quantities of radioactive materials requiring consideration of the need for an emergency plan for responding to a release
- 10CFR 30.70 Schedule A — exempt concentrations
- 10CFR 30.35 Financial assurance and recordkeeping for decommissioning
- 10CFR 30.71 Schedule B for reference of 10CFR 30.35
- Federal Register
- Federal Register Listserv – get daily updates
- Federal Rules, Orders, Regulations
- Laws and Acts
- NRC Generic Communications
- 49CFR: Transport Regs
- EPA Rules, Regulations and Legislation
- NRC’s Office of State Programs
- Regulations dot Gov – public comment on new regs
- OSHA Standards & Related Documents
State Regulations
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia , Georgia X-ray, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois , Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan – DEQ, Michigan – MDCH, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York DOL, New York DOH, New York City, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Carolina X-ray, South Dakota , Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia , Washington, West Virginia , Wisconsin, Wisconsin X-ray, Wyoming
Standards
Instrument Catalogs
- Beckman
- Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation
- Bicron
- Canberra
- Eberline
- Fluke
- InoVision Ludlum
Oxford Instruments
Princeton Gamma-Tech - Software Resources
Brookhaven National Labs – Programs (BNL) - The Fermilab Software Tools Program (Fermi Tools)
- NRC’s Electronic Exposure Information Systems (REMIT and REIRS)
- Intake Retention Function Spread Sheets – UMIRF (MS Excel® 4.0 for a PC and is self-extracting)
- Radon, Decay and Working Levels (MathCad® 6.0 for PC, zipped and is self-extracting)
- RadDecay software (zipped and for DOS – Grove Engineering – Contact Grove Engineering or RISC for newer versions)
- Conversion spreadsheet (MS Excel)
- Conversion Utility for Windows
- iem-inc toolbox
- NRC’s Radiological Toolbox version 2.0
- NRC’s Radiological Toolbox version 2.0 (dosimetry software)