Due to the increased utilization of ionizing radiations on the campus, it was deemed appropriate and necessary that a committee be appointed to help assure radiological safety. This committee was appointed on April 26, 1957, and at the same time a Radiological Safety Officer was designated by the President of Oklahoma State University.

According to terms of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, amending the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has authority over all operations involving byproduct material whether produced in their facilities or not. The Commission has entered into a working arrangement with the University under which it has granted a license to possess and handle certain radioactive materials. A license is subject to the recognition by the University and its staff of certain rules and procedures, and delegates administrative responsibility to the University for possession, use, storage, and disposal of radioactive materials.

The Commission reserves to itself certain rights to revoke or cancel arrangements, to repossess or recall active materials, to inspect facilities, and to review procedures. The continued existence and renewal of the license depends on the acceptance and observance of recognized procedures by all members of the staff of this University concerned in any way with the handling of radioactive material. The purpose of such procedures is to insure insofar as is humanly possible that radioactive materials are handled with the least possible hazard to the individual worker, his associates, the University facilities, and the general public.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION I - RADIATION SAFETY COMMITTEE

SECTION II - REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE PROCUREMENT AND
                    USAGE OF RADIOISOTOPES, EQUIPMENT AND
                    SERVICES

SECTION III - SPECIFIC RADIATION SAFETY STANDARDS

APPENDIX - RADIATION ACCIDENT PROCEDURES