Each facility shall establish a committee of individuals to be responsible for the Radiation Safety/Quality Assurance program. Hospitals will include those departments, which use xrays for diagnostic purposes. This committee should be composed of a minimum of one radiologist, the Chief Technologist, the QC Technologist(s), and a Medical Physicist and a member of the in-house x-ray service or engineering group, if available. Individuals such as hospital administrators and representatives of contracted service companies may also be valuable. The committee in a non-hospital facility might be composed of a physician, radiologic technologist, office manager and service representative.
This oversight committee shall convene on a frequency adequate to meet their responsibilities, with a minimum of one meeting annually. More frequent meetings will probably be important in the initial stages of this program. The minutes of these meetings shall be kept for a minimum of three years.
It is the responsibility of this committee to provide direction to the program, assure that proper documentation and testing is maintained, review the program's effectiveness and determine any changes which should be made.
The committee shall assign Quality Control responsibilities in writing. Specific assignments shall be recorded in the manual. The responsible individuals shall be properly instructed. Evidence of continuing education shall be available for those individuals actively engaged in the Quality Control testing and evaluation process.
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