X-RAY INSPECTION CHECKLIST

Inspection
Team:
Building/Room Inspection
Supervisor:
No.: Date:

NB: Boxes to be ticked as items are sighted (​✓​)​ ​or not present (​✗​), or otherwise ​NA​ indicates the item is not
applicable to this location.

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1 Management
1.1 Are the X-ray machines registered with
Safety and Health?
1.2 Are the X-ray machines locations in
accord with the registration?
1.3 Are the relevant research group leaders
and other personnel licensed?
1.4 Are documented procedures for use of
the X-ray machines displayed visibly on
the wall?
1.5 Are staff given appropriate X-ray safety
training before first starting work and
are records of training kept?
1.6 Are staff inducted for X-ray work and
are records of inductions kept?
1.7 Do all staff know who the SRSO is and
are they aware that they are required to
report to the DRSO any instances of
known or suspected unsafe practices or
incidents/accidents?
2 Personal Monitoring
2.1 Are TLD badges issued to and worn by
all users of partially enclosed and
unenclosed units?
2.2 Are TLDs stored outside the room with
X-ray equipment?
2.3 Are results from personal monitoring
kept and made available to staff?
3 Designated Areas and Labelling
3.1 Is there labelling on relevant entry
doors?
3.2 Are there working ‘X-ray on’ lights
outside all doors of the room?
3.3 Is ionising equipment contained in
appropriate enclosures?
3.4 Are visible (and audible) signals
provided inside and outside enclosures
to provide warning before and during
irradiation?
3.5 Is X-ray and other radiation producing
equipment in a room solely dedicated to
this equipment?
4 Shielding, Equipment and Interlocks
4.1 Do enclosures have interlocks
preventing staff from being within the

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 confines of the enclosure while beam is
on?
4.2 Does the design of the room housing
radiation producing equipment include
structural shielding requirements?
4.3 Are beam stops in place?
4.4 Is X-ray key switch required to activate
X-ray beam?
4.5 Are windows into the room covered?
4.6 Are safe work practices adopted to
make appropriate use of controls, e.g.
shielding, distance and time?
4.7 Are "fail-safe" mechanisms provided to
prevent generation of X-rays when:
a) the shutter is open without analysing
components & beam stops in position;
b) the housing is removed from the
X-ray tube or the X-ray tube is
removed from the housing;
c) an enclosure is detached from the
housing, and the beam stop is
removed?
4.8 For diagnostic X-rays are lead aprons
or mobile shields available and used?
5 Radiation Monitoring
5.1 Is appropriate monitoring equipment
available?
5.2 Have monitors been calibrated in the
last 12 months?
5.3 Are radiation surveys carried out
(monthly for partially enclosed XRA
units, 3 monthly for fully enclosed XRA
units)?
5.4 Are radiation survey records up to date?

Other Comments :

Inspected by (print name) Signature Date

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