EMF COMP
EMF Compliance Services
We are leaders in examining compliance with EMF legislation, guidance and limits.
Who decides what a safe electromagnetic field is? ICNIRP, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection. Its guidelines underpin every UK EMF limit, whether applied by the HSE to workplaces, written by Ofcom into radio licences, or advised by the UK Health Security Agency and the World Health Organisation for the public. We have decades of experience measuring against them. Whatever your sector or issue, our award-winning, chartered specialists will show you where you stand against ICNIRP, or any other EMF safety guideline or standard, and how to comply. Get in touch for a free, no obligation consultation.
Providing Premium EMF Compliance Services
More than 500 EMF safety assessments, across almost every sector. Whether you need an electromagnetic compliance assessment of a facility, a survey for a planned development or EMF testing of a piece of equipment, you get a clear verdict and a practical route to compliance. The work is led by our Founder and Managing Director, Dr Richard Findlay: Chartered Radiation Protection Professional, Fellow of the Society for Radiological Protection (SRP), past Chair of its EMF Safety Committee, and author of more than twenty scientific papers on electromagnetic fields over three decades.
Decades of Experience
We have assessed EMF exposure against ICNIRP and other requirements for a very long time, so the chances are we have already seen your exposure situation, in your sector. Our measurement and modelling methods grew out of space technology and earned us a place in the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC). We completed the initiative, and the advanced techniques it produced are now applied to our clients’ EMF radiation protection projects. Yours can be next.
Affiliated Organisation
EMFcomp is SafeContractor accredited and an Affiliate of the Society for Radiological Protection. Our electromagnetic field testing runs from computer modelling of human EMF exposure through to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) measurements. One specialist, one point of contact, the full range. Get in touch today for a free, no obligation consultation.
Frequently Asked Questions
01What Are the Hazards from Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields?
Power frequency (50 Hz) fields, also called extremely low frequency (ELF) fields, act on the nervous system. At high enough levels they can cause dizziness, nausea, flickering in the vision, tingling and muscle twitching. At much lower levels they can interfere with cardiac devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators. That is why the UK has EMF safety legislation: employers must make sure the working environment is safe for everyone in it.
02What Are the Hazards from High Frequency Electromagnetic Fields?
High frequency, or radiofrequency (RF), fields heat the body. In workers, strong RF fields can cause heat stress, hyperthermia and RF burns. They can also heat passive implants such as plates, screws and rods, and interfere with cardiac devices including pacemakers, heart pumps and defibrillators. The limits in the ICNIRP guidelines and UK legislation are set well below the levels at which any of this happens.
03How Do the ICNIRP and EMF Regulations Work?
ICNIRP publishes limits below which the known harmful effects of EMF do not occur, and the UK’s EMF Regulations are built on them. For the public at 50 Hz, for example, the ICNIRP reference levels used in the UK are 100 µT and 5 kV/m. Employers in every sector have a legal duty to assess their employees’ exposure. If it exceeds the limits, they must reduce it. Measuring the fields is how you find out which side of the line you are on.
04How Is Compliance with ICNIRP and the EMF Regulations Assessed?
By measurement, by calculation, or both. We measure with calibrated, state-of-the-art instruments and compare the results with the ICNIRP Reference Levels and the Action Levels in the Control of Electromagnetic Fields at Work Regulations (CEMFAW) and HSE’s guidance. Where those are exceeded, we use computational methods to calculate the electric fields or SAR induced in the body, and compare them with the ICNIRP Basic Restrictions and the CEMFAW Exposure Limit Values. You receive an in-depth report setting out the legislation and guidance, the methods, a full breakdown of results, and recommendations, action plans and mitigation measures. Reports of that quality are one reason EMFcomp is an award-winning consultancy.
05How Can EMFcomp Help?
UK legislation expects electromagnetic radiation assessments, measurements and calculations to be planned and carried out by a competent person, and kept up to date. That is us. EMFcomp Limited carries out the whole electromagnetic field safety assessment for you, so your own staff can get on with their jobs. We are led by a Chartered Radiation Protection Professional (CRadP) and have an excellent track record of helping companies, large and small, achieve EMF compliance.
Few consultancies can speak about EMF limits with more authority. We co-wrote the European Commission’s ‘Practical Guide to the EMF Directive’, which sets out the ICNIRP-based limits and underpins compliance assessment under the Control of Electromagnetic Fields at Work Regulations 2016. Our advice, EMF detection, measurement and modelling all draw on our own published scientific research.
