X-Ray requirements DOH.pdf
X-Ray Facility Plan Review
To ensure that adequate lead is installed in the walls, floor, ceiling and/or operator's booth,
Chapter WAC requires that new, remodeled or re-located medical X-ray facilities submit
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shielding calculations before construction begins, or before the X-ray machine is moved.
Look up these requirements in your copy of the WAC or call 1-800-299-XRAY for a copy.
The following sequence of events should take place:
1 - Plan Review
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X-Ray Shielding Plan Review:
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Information for Registrants
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Information for Qualified Experts
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Work with your architect, contractor, or X-ray installer to hire a qualified expert to perform the
shielding calculations. You will need to provide information on projected workload, techniques to be
used, exam types to be done, layout of room, occupancy of adjacent space, etc. A
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is provided. You should contact several experts on the list to see how much they charge and
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when they can do the calculations for you. When complete, the floor plan and shielding calculations
are sent to us for review: , packet for registrants.
X-Ray Shielding Plan Review Procedure (Word)
or mail them to
Send the documents by e-mail
X-Ray Program
Washington State Department of Health
P.O. Box 47827
Olympia WA 98504-7827
Without the cover sheet and appropriate plan review fees the plans will be returned to the sender. If
the plans meet shielding requirements, we send an acceptance letter to you. Use of the X-ray
equipment cannot begin until after you have received the review letter from our office.
There is a $656 late fee if our review is not done before X-ray machine use.
2 - Installation, Registration and Fees
When your X-ray machine is installed (or moved) the installer is required to send us a Report of
Assembly. Other copies of this report go to you and the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. When we
receive this report, we then match it with the shielding calculations and the floor plan. You must then
submit a Registration Application Package (for new facilities only) and any appropriate fees to
the (DOR). are charged based upon the type
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of practice (medical, dental, veterinary, industrial, etc.) and number and type of X-ray
machines. Every year thereafter, your facility will be billed through Department of Licensing
(DOL) for re-registration. There is no additional fee for routine inspections.
3 - Inspection
The final step in this process is the inspection done by one of our X-ray inspectors who will call you
and make an appointment. The facility floor plan and shielding will be verified against the plan
submitted, and the X-ray machine will be tested to ensure that it is performing according to
standards found in .
WAC 246-225
Exemptions
Note that radiographic diagnostic veterinary, podiatric and dental facilities are exempt from
submitting shielding calculations and floor plans, but the radiation safety standards in
WAC 246-225
must be followed. For dental and podiatric facilities, these standards include the requirement for a
proper exposure switch/button placement (permanently mounted in a protected area), and for
podiatric and dental extra-oral (cephalometric or panoramic) systems, a means of viewing the patient
during the exposure (plate glass window, mirror or video). For dental cephalometric and podiatric
facilities, primary beam shielding should be considered if the primary beam is directed toward
occupied areas.