Doug: The following is a list of US standards on the subject. I have information from other countries and other frequencies. You can also find additional information from the Electromagnetic Energy Association and Ergonomics, Inc.
Dave George 29 CFR Chapt. 17 Part 1910.97 Non-ionizing Radiation (OSHA) ACGIH Threshold Limits for Physical Agents in the Work Environment. (American Conference of Government and industrial Hygienists) ANSI/IEEE C95.1 Standard for Safety Levels with Respect to Human Exposure to Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, 3 kHz to 300 GHz. ANSI/IEEE C95.3 Recommended Practices for the Measurement of Potentially Hazardous Electromagnetic Fields - RF and Microwave (3kHz to 300 GHz) ANSI C95.5 Recommended Practice for the Measurement of Hazardous Electromagnetic Fields - RF and Microwave ANSI/IEEE 473 Recommended Practice for an Electromagnetic Site Survey (10 kHz to 10 GHz) ----------------------------------------------------------------- >From: owner-emc-pstc >To: emc-pstc >Subject: Human exposure to microwave RF >Date: Monday, December 16, 1996 10:48AM > >Return-Path: <[email protected]> >Received: from trsvr.tr.unisys.com by trpo1.tr.unisys.com id > <[email protected]>; Mon, 16 Dec 96 14:02:06 EST >Received: from bbmail1.unisys.com by trsvr.tr.unisys.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id > SAA27554 ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:54:44 GMT >Received: from ruebert.ieee.org (ruebert.ieee.org [199.172.136.3]) by > bbmail1.unisys.com (8.7.3/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA20050; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 > 19:03:21 GMT >Received: (from daemon@localhost) by ruebert.ieee.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id > LAA10777 for emc-pstc-list; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:52:15 -0500 (EST) >From: [email protected] (Doug Frazee) >To: [email protected] ('emc-pstc-ieee') >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail via PostalUnion/SMTP for Windows NT >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Organization: Alliant TechSystems, Inc. >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:48:25 -0600 >Subject: Human exposure to microwave RF >Sender: [email protected] >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: [email protected] (Doug Frazee) >X-Resent-To: Multiple Recipients <[email protected]> >X-Listname: emc-pstc >X-List-Description: Product Safety Tech. Committee, EMC Society >X-Info: Help requests to [email protected] >X-Info: [Un]Subscribe requests to [email protected] >X-Moderator-Address: [email protected] >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > >I am looking for documents that discuss safe exposure levels to radiated >microwave RF energy in the 2-4 and 4-8 GHz frequency ranges. Do any of >you have information on documents, agencies or other resources that can >help? > >Doug Frazee >EMC compliance engineer > >
