MSDSs
Investigators should use the NUtrino newsletter as part of their required refresher training. Circulate the newsletter and the training form among your radiation workers. File the signed training form with your authorization and other radiation safety program documents.
October 2007
Radwaste Card: Radionuclide Activity Assessment
January 2007
ISIS: Integrated Safety Information System
June 2006
Inspection Findings: Inadequate Surveys
May 2005
Ordering and Receiving Radioactive Materials
March 2005
Thanks for the Great Inspection; Radiation Safety Committee Authorizes Changes
January 2005
Bruce Sanza Appointed Radiation Safety Officer; Prepare for IEMA Inspection
July 2004
What can go down the drain?; Use Secondary Containment Under Liquid Wastes; Meet Bruce Sanza, Evanston Health Physicist
April 2004
Staffing Changes in Evanston ORS; General Guideline for Waste Pickups
March 2004
Survey Meter Calibration and Maintenance
January 2004
Annual Radiation Laboratory Self-Audit
December 2003
Procurement of Radioactive Materials: Know Limits, Rules; Accountability
November 2003
Prior Approval is Required for Mixed Waste Generation
October 2003
IEMA Inspection Results
September 2003
Annual Refresher Training: What Authorized Investigators Need to Know
August 2003
Proper Collection of Shipping Containers; Plastic Shields Available from
ORS Chicago
June 2003
New Scintillation Vial Containers Debut on Chicago Campus
April 2003
Five Rules Every Radiation Worker Must Follow; The Obligation to Post
Documents and the Right to See Them
March 2003
What's in that "aqueous" waste?
February 2003
Designated Work Areas Maximize Efficiency; Documentation Binder -- Your
One-Stop Reference; Contamination is Forgivable -- Failure to Clean It
Up Is Not
January 2003
Laser Safety Program
December 2002
Getting Help in an Emergency; Emergency Signs and Stickers
November 2002
Friendly Reminders of Holiday Preparation
October 2002
Rules for Radwaste: Liquid Scintillation Waste
September 2002
Rules for Radwaste: Aqueous Waste Collection
August 2002
Rules for Radwaste: Dry Waste Collection
July 2002
IDNS Inspects Program, Cites Security
June 2002
Brian Wimmer Takes Reins in Evanston; Vacuum Pump with No Trap Creates
Mixed Waste; Sanitary Sewer Disposal of Radioactive Liquids is Prohibited
May 2002
Sharing Radioactive Materials; PPE and Appropriate Laboratory Attire
April 2002
Allowable Doses, Dosimetry
March 2002
Expanded Training for New Radiation Workers Offered in Chicago; Please Register Only Radiation Workers; Liquid Scintillation Cocktail Information Needed
January 2002
Lab Surveys are Important, Easy; Disposal of Uranyl Acetate
December 2001
Rules Apply to to Non-Radiation Workers, Visitors in Your Lab; Dosimetry
Deadline
November 2001
Think You Could Stand the Heat?; Warm Up to the Idea of Accountability;
Attitude Matters
October 2001
Weak Batteries = No Calibration; Authorized Investigator Name Must Appear
on Waste Cards, Orders; Food — or Evidence — Prohibited in Laboratories;
Swap Solvents for Biodegradable Cocktails
September 2001
Countdown to Inspection; Relocating and Discarding Appliances
August 2001
When Good Radiochemicals Go Bad
July 2001
Posted Radiation Worker List Required; Really Old Inventory Forms, Record
Your Bioassay Status; Closing or Moving Your Laboratory?
June 2001
Proper Shipping Address on Orders is Crucial
May 2001
Laboratory Radiation Safety Self-Audit, Mixed Waste Generation Something
to Avoid
April 2001
The temporary radwaste container, Daily operational checks, Survey meter
calibration and repair, Suppose you saw your doctor...
March 2001
Shielding
February 2001
Source Must Be Locked Up When The Laboratory Is Unattended
January 2001
Accounting for Radioactive Materials
November 2000
Rules for Rad Waste
October 2000
2000 Radiation Olympics, or, How to Score a 10 with IDNS
September 2000
What You Told Us You Will Do, Training: Picking Up Where ORS Leaves Off,
Cutting Through the Safety and Regulatory Thickets
August 2000
Don't Hesitate - Correlate, Disposing of Uranyl Nitrate
July 2000
"To Survey and Protect," Comfort and Safety
June 2000
Warheads!, Speaking of Neutrons..., New Study says, "Mortality at
TMI not from radioactivity"
May 2000
Semiannual Self-Audit, Waste Cards.
April 2000
Census Time for Radiation Workers.
March 2000
Radiation Emergencies.
February 2000
Liquid Scintillation Fluids.
January 2000
Use this checklist to gauge your lab's performance in some of the
practices that make work with radioactive materials safer.
December 1999
Radiation Safety Program Inspection, Focus on Accountability, Security
November 1999
Bioassay, Courier delivery
October 1999
Transferring Material Between Labs and Institutions
September 1999
Personal protective clothing and equipment, "May we remind you..."
August 1999
Signs and labels, "And another thing..."
July 1999
Survey meter calibration and repair, glove safety
June 1999
Radwaste containers, operational checks of radiation survey instruments
May 1999
Radioactive materials security, dressing for safety, new dosimeters
April 1999
Monthly Focus Debuts, Correlating Inventory Forms with Stock Vials
October 1998
State Scans System, Cites Safety Sins
August 1998 - Special
Edition
New OSL dosimeters to debut in September
August 1998
Animal Experimentation and Radioactive Materials: What You Should
Know
Security of Radioactive Materials
July 1998
New dosimetry technology coming your way
Are you getting the most out of your scintillation counter?
June 1998
Prepare to Meet Thy Regulator
April 1998
Care and Use of a Survey Meter
Use this NUtrino as a training tool
March 1998
Selecting the appropriate shielding material
Use this NUtrino as a training tool
February 1998
Knowledge of mathematics basic to radioactivity measurement
Use this NUtrino as a training tool
January 1998
Radiation Safety Checklist
Use this NUtrino as a training tool
December 1997
Use this NUtrino as a training tool
Return Old Forms, Dispose of Old Stock Materials
The Ins and Outs of Labels on Radwaste
Did You Know...
The Radiation Safety Web Page
early August 1997
IDNS Inspects Radiation Safety Program
The Radiation Safety Web Page
June 1997
Shorts in the lab
Radwaste logs
Radiation Workers Changing Labs
Sharing radioactive materials...
Missed bioassays...
Bloated inventories...
The Radiation Safety Web Page...
March 27, 1997
Radiation Safety Web page
New Radiation Safety Handbook released
P-32 bioassay requirement modified
Do you know where your sealed sources are?
February 18, 1997
Radioactive waste disposal cost skyrocket
January 6, 1997
Posted Radiation Worker List now required
Prepare now for IDNS inspection
December 9, 1996
Survey meter calibration under way in Chicago
Contamination surveys: easy as one, two, three
Security: how much is enough?
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