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About Radiation Safety Section
The Radiation Safety Section is responsible for all nonfederal, nontribal radiation machine and facility regulation in Michigan. This includes the following activities to help ensure compliance with Michigan's Ionizing Radiation Rules Governing the Use of Radiation Machines and applicable portions of the Public Health Code:
- Annual registration of, and registration fee collection from Michigan's approximately 10,000 x-ray facilities with over 29,000 x-ray machines
- Specific authorization of radiation machines to be used for mammography prior to such use
- Inspection of any new mammography machine within 60 days of initial use or authorization to be used for mammography
- Annual inspections of each mammography machine and facility to determine compliance with the Rules and statutory requirements for the approximately 300 mammography facilities in Michigan
- Annual MQSA mammography inspections performed in Michigan pursuant to an inspection contract with the Food & Drug Administration
- Periodic inspections of medical and nonmedical radiation machines and facilities, including medical and nonmedical high-energy accelerators
- Regulatory responsibility for the radiation machine aspects of PET cyclotrons, research cyclotrons, and other particle accelerators
- Approval of radiation shielding design for medical and nonmedical radiation machines and facilities
- Investigation of radiation incidents involving excessive radiation doses to workers and misadministration of therapeutic x-ray, electron beam, or neutron beam radiation doses to patients
Our Mission
The Radiation Safety Section serves to reduce unnecessary exposure to ionizing radiation from x-ray machines and other radiation machines; to protect and improve the health of Michigan's population through the development and enforcement of appropriate regulatory requirements pertaining to the use of radiation machines; and to help ensure through the regulatory process that mammography machines and facilities are capable of high-quality mammography which can provide patients and physicians with the best chance of discovering breast cancer in its earliest stages.