Magnetic Field Exposure Guidelines

Abstract

My presentation will be a sharp contrast to the discussions that dealt with lower organisms and fields with strengths of only a few gauss. Now, we are going to move up to kilogausses and talk about people. My real function here is to try to give you some insight into why there is a need to establish exposure guidelines in the immediate future, and for what particular purposes they might be suitable. The Department of Energy ad hoc committee which I am chairing has now completed a review of technologies that utilize magnetic fields, and I believe we have gained an understanding of the conditions for which we have to set guidelines. In the course of describing these conditions, I hope as well to give you a feeling for the range of exposures that are likely in occupational situations.