Welcome to the Radiation Safety Office

Collectively, Columbia University Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital and New York State Psychiatric Institute form a large health science complex with extensive teaching, research, and clinical facilities. The basic goal of the Radiation Safety Office is to ensure the implementation of all protective measures necessary to guarantee that doses from ionizing radiation to patients, visitors, students, faculty and staff on campus, as well as to the community at large, remain “as low as reasonably achievable” (ALARA). Major entities supported by Radiation Safety Office services include:

• Columbia University Medical Center
• New York Presbyterian/Columbia University
• New York State Psychiatric Institute
• Columbia Presbyterian Eastside
• New York Presbyterian Hospital/Allen Pavilion
• New York Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital (CHONY)
• Kreitchman PET Center Radiopharmacy
• CUMC Integrated Imaging Center
• Dental facilities on the CUMC/NYPH/NYSPI campus and elsewhere off-campus.

Featured Information

2009 Radiation Safety Lecture Schedule Updated 10/21/2009 How to take online test and get the RASCAL certificate to receive a dosimetry badge? Radiation Safety Badges - Do's and Don'ts How to take online X-Ray Fluoroscopy test and get the RASCAL certificate? Instructions for completing RASCAL Online Application for Human Use Research List of physicians approved for studies under CPMC's Broad Human Use Radioactive Materials License #75-2878-01 - Updated Aug 11, 2009 List of technologists approved to Administer Radionuclides by Injection for Diagnostic Purposes - Updated September 2, 2009 Selected properties of Radionuclides commonly used at CUMC and NYSPI Survey Meters: What to use? And where to purchase?

• Notice to Employees
• Radiation Safety Code & Guide of CUMC, NYPH & NYSPI
• Radiation Protection Policy for Pregnant Workers
• New York City Bureau of Radioactive Health, Article 175
  
• Radiation Control Document, available for reference in the Radiation Safety Office. Copies can be purchased from the publisher, New York Legal Publishing Corporation, for a reasonable fee.
• NYS Bureau of Enviormnental Radiation Protection Documents - November 16, 2009
• New York State Department of Labor - DOSH RHU - November 18, 2009