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Radiation Safety Program for the Department of National Defence (DND) Chief of Miliatry Personnel (CMP)

This project entailed the development of a comprehensive enterprise-level Radiation Safety Program that encompasses the Canadian Forces Health Services Group (CF H Svcs Gp), Canadian Forces Support Training Group (CFSTG), CFB Borden, CF Nuclear Biological Chemical Defence (NBCD) School, Royal Military College (RMC), and Directorate of Heritage and History (DHH). In addition to addressing overall group principal (Command) and associated chain of command program requirements, examples of program elements addressed:

Royal Military College (RMC) SLOWPOKE Reactor in Kingston and analytical X-ray;
CF H Svcs Gp medical and dental X-Rays across Canada and abroad;
CFSTG Explosives Ordinance Disposal (EOD) radiography;
Baggage/Cargo, and analytical X-Ray at RMC;
High-risk radioisotopes and nuclear safety training at the CF NBCS in Borden; and
Significant numbers of artefacts containing Radium at over 60 museums across Canada.

The first phase comprised a formal compliance audit against: DND/Director General Nuclear Safety (DGNS), Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), and Health Canada (HC) Radiation Emitting Devices (RED) Act regulations. It also entailed a conformance audit against: ISO 14000 Environmental Management Standards, Occupational Health and Safety Standard (OHSAS) 18001, and the existing CMP Radiation Safety Program at the time. The second phase entailed the development of a hybrid ISO 14001/OHSAS 18001based radiation safety management system framework for the group and associated radiation safety management system documentation including an internal audit regime. The following summarizes some of the special aspects of this program:

Analysis and review of Life Cycle Materiel Management practices for medical/dental X-ray devices since the CF H Svcs Gp procures, maintains, and disposes of all medical/dental X-ray devices;
Development, analysis, review and assessment of health physics, dosimetry and radiation protection practices required unique procedures;
Radiological surveys, basic infrastructure and equipment decommissioning, basic decontamination and clean-up, monitoring and waste management;
Development of emergency plans, procedures for DHH, RMC, and CFSTG/CFB Borden requiring a standardized template and associated process for reporting and tracking;
Training management at CFSTG/CFB Borden at the CF NBC School and other schools that teach EOD X-Ray as well at the Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG) at the CFSAL, and maintenance training for FCS techs at CFSEMC;
Monitoring and modeling, electronic reporting, and trend analysis that harmonize OHSAS 18001 and CMP General Safety and Environmental management programs;
Conduct of radiation safety risk assessments and development of safety assessment methodologies which are unique to CMP operations; the most significant being a radiation safety hazard risk assessment of over 60 military museums across Canada;
Information and data management which are a significant challenge across such a diverse organization required the development of a unique and standard system; and
The development and maintenance of project plans, breakdown structures, project implementation plans to fully develop, roll-out, and maintain the management system.

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