<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Technological development put international organisations to effort in order to issue and continuously reassess standards concerning electromagnetic radiation protection issues. Protection standards have to be continuously reviewed as new data become available. This article provides a brief overview of updates implemented by the latest available protection standards. Currently, standards do not incorporate appropriate safety factors for protection against long-term effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields, thus protection is provided only for the established short term effects of electromagnetic fields on the human body. However, there is still a great deal of questions related to differences in limitations set by international organisations that have issued recommendations for personnel protection against electromagnetic fields.</p></abstract>

Technological development put international organisations to effort in order to issue and continuously reassess standards concerning electromagnetic radiation protection issues. Protection standards have to be continuously reviewed as new data become available. This article provides a brief overview of updates implemented by the latest available protection standards. Currently, standards do not incorporate appropriate safety factors for protection against long-term effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields, thus protection is provided only for the established short term effects of electromagnetic fields on the human body. However, there is still a great deal of questions related to differences in limitations set by international organisations that have issued recommendations for personnel protection against electromagnetic fields.

An Overview of Standards and Regulation Concerning Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY CLUJ NAPOCA, ROMANIA

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Technological development put international organisations to effort in order to issue and continuously reassess standards concerning electromagnetic radiation...

An Overview of Standards and Regulation Concerning Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields

Publicado en línea: 26 jul 2016

Páginas: 145 - 150

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bsaft-2015-0022

Palabras clave
Electromagnetic field exposure, basic restrictions, exposure limit values, reference levels, action levels

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

An Overview of Standards and Regulation Concerning Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields

Publicado en línea: 26 jul 2016

Páginas: 145 - 150

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bsaft-2015-0022

Palabras claveElectromagnetic field exposure, basic restrictions, exposure limit values, reference levels, action levels

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
Electromagnetic field exposure, basic restrictions, exposure limit values, reference levels, action levels