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Regulatory Forum
Enhancement of State Radiation Control Personnel
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8/26/04]
 

 

G-56 Task Force for the Enhancement of State Radiation Control Personnel

 

Membership 

Chairperson: Joji Ortego – Los Angeles County – Radiation Management,

Members:  Carole Chafin – Los Angeles County – Radiation Management;

Earl Fordham – State of Washington;

Paul Caleb – State of Wisconsin;

Susan Miller – State of Wisconsin.
 
Charges to the G-56 Task Force
Charge #1.  Develop general information brochure that describes state radiation control program health physics positions and qualification requirements by March 1, 2007.
Action: A brochure was developed to be distributed to educational institutions. The brochure includes titles used by different programs, duties and responsibilities, minimum requirements and CRCPD information.
Charge #2.  Poll state programs to determine states that have internship or summer employment and the job duties/functions of these positions by March 1, 2007.
Action: Questionnaires were sent via email by CRCPD to all the state programs. 26 state programs responded.

The work group recommends information to be posted on the CRCPD public web site for interested individuals. Information will be linked to Human Resources/Personnel department of the individual member states.
Charge #3.  Develop a salary comparison of health physics positions between states and private industry.
Action: There was great difficulty in obtaining salary information for the health physics positions in the private industry. With the advise of Thomas Cardwell, the G-56 group decided to compare salaries of state health physics positions with the 2006 Health Physics Society’s Salary Survey published in the Health Physics News, Volume XXXV, Number 3, March 2007. The group decided that HPS’ Salary by Region information would be the most useful information for this assigned charge. The states were divided by regions as defined in the HPS Salary survey.
Charge #4 Develop a list of the 378 educational institutions that were polled in attachment B to the G-56 draft report. Poll major universities that were not previously polled. Supply a list of the universities that are polled and the responses by March 1, 2007.
Action: Sixteen major universities that did not respond to the 2005/2006 poll were sent questionnaires. In addition, 32 Nuclear Medicine and 26 Radiation Therapy Bachelor Degree programs were polled. 43 institutions (58%) responded.
Develop a listing of websites for state radiation control programs human resources job posting by March 1, 2007.
Action: The group recommends that the human resources web sites be made available on the CRCPD public site.  [The products of the G-56 Task Force were approved for posting to the Regulatory Forum-Ed.]