Protecting the health and safety of the Commonwealth from the harmful effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
- This page, Radiation Control, is offered by
- Radiation Control Program
- Bureau of Climate and Environmental Health
- Department of Public Health
Radiation Control
What would you like to do?
All other tasks
Apply for a Radiologic Technologist license
Renew your Radiologic Technologist license
Apply for a temporary Radiologic Technologist license
Apply for a Massachusetts Radioactive Material License
Apply for a Massachusetts Radioactive Material License by reciprocity
Apply to be a registered consultant to perform duties involving radiation or radioactive materials
Apply for a Mammography facility license
Register a Mammography machine
Register an ionizing radiation source
Register an accelerator unit (electron beam accelerators, electrocurtains, and ion implanters)
Register a LASER device
Report the disposal or transfer of a LASER device
Register a generally licensed radioactive device
Register an industrial X-ray device
Report the disposal of medical X-Ray unit(s)
Apply for a certificate to use depleted uranium under a general license
Apply for a certificate for in-vitro testing with radioactive material under a general license
Submit a Radioactive Waste Survey
Submit a Cumulative Occupational Exposure History Form or Occupational Exposure for a Monitoring Period Form
Request to take the ARRT fluoroscopy exam and become qualified to perform fluoroscopic procedures as a Physician Assistant (PA)
Submit a Certificate of Termination: Disposition of Radioactive Material
Become a Radiation Safety Officer
What you need to know
Electromagnetic Fields or “EMF”
Radioactive Materials
Radiation Control Program registration of services (consultants)
Radiation Control Program information notices & guidelines
Radiation Control Program regulations
Radiological emergency information
Emergency preparedness: Planning Section of the Radiation Control Program
Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and LASERs
Fluoroscopy
Low level radioactive waste
Occupational Exposure
Potassium Iodide (KI)
Tanning facilities
Environmental Radiation Laboratory
Radioactive Materials Program
Mammography
Health effects of Radium radiation exposure
Radiation Control Program application forms
Environmental monitoring
- AAHP
- AAPM
- Centers for Disease Control, Radiation Studies Branch
- Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Inc.
- DOT Headquarters
- EPA
- FDA Headquarters
- FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health
- GPO/NA CFRs
- Health Physics at University of Michigan
- Health Physics Journal
- Health Physics Society
- IAEA
- IRPA
- NIST
- NRC Headquarters
- NRC Information Notices
- NRC Office of State and Tribal Programs
- NRRPT
- OSHA Headquarters
Contact Information
Address
250 Washington St., 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
Phone
Monday–Friday 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
RCP emergency number
Call Radiation Control Program, RCP emergency number at (508) 820-2121
Rings to Massachusetts State Police
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