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Our quality department are in the process of purchasing an XRF analyzer. Having never dealt with an XRF machine, I feel a little out of my depth. We are receiving a lot of information and assistance from the manufacture however they (when all said and done) want to make a sale.
Has anyone any good guidance on the safety requirements or would be willing to have a chat with me about the things I should specifically be asking/considering, or sources of information which I need to be aware of and can provide to our employees.
The supplier is offering to act as our Radiation Protection Supervisor (RPS) in accordance with Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999 (IRR99).
The unit we are considering is a Delta Dynamic XRF (Link Provided only for information)
http://www.innovx.com/products/DELTA
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If you need an RPS then it sounds like you will need an RPA
An RPS can be trained easily and the role could be undertaken in-house or a good equipment supplier could do it for you - I would advise in-house as you control what is going on. However that is my way
The minimum requirements for an RPA is a higher level degree [usually PHD in my experience] in an appropriate area e.g physics not a degree for watching the telly! Ask the supplier who their RPA is and you may be able to use that person [RPA's are not cheap in my experience]
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Bob
Isn't an RPS supposed to be in a position to exercise day-to-day control? Surely it has to be an employee, whereas the RPA can be a contractor.
LB
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We use one of the XRF's from the same supplier. In a nutshell, some parts of IRR 99 apply. You have to make an initial notification to the HSE, appoint an RPA, RPS. The supplier trains the employees, It is not a "live" radiation source and becomes activated only when switched on. We have appointed an external RPA, but the RPS in internal. Please contact me by PM for additional information
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don't think you need do anything other than give the SE 28 days notice. We had an XRF here with film badges in use, never got a reading. Our consultant RPA is Mark Ramsay of Ionactive who I am sure will give you phone advice FOC.
www.ionactive.co.uk
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Hi,
In a former company I used XRF instrumentation and had an internal RPS. The NRPB (now HPA) provided the 1-2 week training in Leeds, we also used the NRPB as our RPA and if memory serves, providing we had no problems, they audited us every year, we also all wore film badges analysed by the NRPB but nothing showed in the 12 years I worked for the company. Lots of info. freely available on the HSE website:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/radiation/ionising/index.htm
Regards
Steve
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