EMF COMP
EMF Surveys
Does your organisation require an EMF survey to comply with regulatory requirements and limits?
Electromagnetic fields can affect people’s health, so the law sets limits, and every employer must assess exposure against them; with five or more employees, the assessment must be written down. An EMF survey is how you find out where you stand. Be careful who you ask: misinformation about EMF is everywhere, and so are unqualified consultants. We provide quality EMF surveys for almost any application, carried out by an award-winning Chartered Radiation Protection Professional with decades of electromagnetic testing experience. Our work is for businesses and organisations, so we do not carry out EMF surveys for the public. Every survey is planned around your site, and you deal directly with the expert doing the measuring. Contact us for more information.
Professional Compliance Assistance You Can Trust
Good health and safety is both a legal duty and a moral one, and you already take it seriously. Electromagnetic fields (EMF) are part of that picture: strong fields can cause adverse health effects, and the Control of Electromagnetic Fields at Work Regulations 2016 make it your statutory responsibility to manage them. The starting point is knowing how your employees’ exposure compares with the limits in the Regulations and guidance. A survey gives you that number, in black and white. From there, compliance stops being a worry and becomes a record you can show to anyone who asks.
An electromagnetic site survey is not one measurement. A single area can contain static fields, low frequency electric and magnetic fields, intermediate frequencies and radiofrequency fields, and each needs its own EMF test equipment and method. Get that wrong and the numbers mean nothing. We can help. We carry the instruments for all of them and measure EMF in almost any exposure situation, in almost any sector.
We are independent, and that matters. We sell no equipment and no shielding, so our electromagnetic radiation measurements and recommendations follow the science on EMF safety levels and nothing else. We also explain as we go. By the end you will understand what the Control of Electromagnetic Fields at Work Regulations 2016 (CEMFAW), the ICNIRP guidelines and the relevant EMF standards actually ask of you, and which mitigation measures are worth your money.
Experience, Confidence, Competence
Nobody accredits EMF assessors. Anyone can buy a meter and call themselves a consultant, and plenty do, often with the wrong equipment and little experience. If their survey turns out to be wrong, the legal duty, and the liability, are still yours.
We provide high quality EMF assessments. Our Managing Director, Dr Richard Findlay, is a Chartered Radiation Protection Professional (CRadP), a Fellow of the Society for Radiological Protection (SRP) and past Chair of its EMF Safety Committee. Over three decades he has published more than twenty peer-reviewed papers on electromagnetic exposure assessment. EMFcomp is an Affiliate of the SRP and an alumnus of the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centre. We still research better ways of assessing electromagnetic safety, which keeps our EMF radiation measurement methods, and the service you receive, ahead of the field.
The Cost Of Non-Compliance
Non-compliance with the EMF Regulations starts with the worst outcome: someone made ill or injured at work. Then the business pays, in damaged reputation, lower morale, sick pay, higher insurance premiums and fines.
Fines are the usual penalty, and they have grown. Since the Sentencing Council’s 2016 guidelines, penalties for health and safety breaches are tied to an organisation’s turnover, are unlimited, and regularly reach six figures. That is before the legal costs of a trial. A breach of the EMF Regulations also opens the door to claims from your own employees, and compensation pay-outs to injured personnel can be substantial. Against all that, the cost of a survey is small.
It does not have to come to that. We have completed more than 500 EMF safety studies across many sectors. After your survey you receive a detailed technical report that sets out your results against the limits and documents that your organisation has met its legal duty under the EMF Regulations.
In-depth Assessment Reports
Every survey ends with a comprehensive EMF report: what we measured, how, what it means and what to do next. It answers the question. It is not a data dump. If the findings call for action, our network of vendors and manufacturers means we can point you to the right products and services without selling you any ourselves. Site teams tell us they value the detail, because it shows them exactly which areas matter. That is how we try to raise the bar on industry best practice.
Fully Committed & Transparent
Any sector, almost any application, any stage of a project. Call us in at design, during construction or once the site is running, and we will work alongside your site teams and third-party contractors so that the EMF safety survey gets done with minimal disruption to the job in hand.
We are SafeContractor accredited through the Alcumus scheme, and risk assessments and method statements (RAMS) for our EMF surveys are available on request. We carry out electromagnetic radiation measurements in any workplace, anywhere in the UK and overseas, at the times and places that suit you. You can see what we are doing throughout, with updates and progress reports whenever you want them. And if you have a question about your electromagnetic field survey, during the work or long after, you get a prompt and detailed answer.
Frequently Asked Questions
01Will The Survey Be Suitable for My Particular EMF Exposure Problem?
An EMF survey is a measured assessment of the field levels in your facility. We work through each area with our instruments, record the fields and compare them with the relevant limits to see whether you comply. Our state-of-the-art equipment is regularly calibrated in internationally accredited laboratories and measures from 0 Hz to 60 GHz: static magnets, mains power, radio transmitters and everything in between. So yes, it will suit your site. Whatever the application or sector, you come away with a quality electromagnetic field assessment.
02Who Can Carry Out These CEMFAW Regulation Compliance Assessments?
EMF exposure is simply the field a person is actually standing in. Measuring it properly, and judging it against the CEMFAW Regulations, takes a competent, qualified assessor. The recognised benchmark is the Society for Radiological Protection’s (SRP) Chartered Radiation Protection Professional (CRadP) qualification, so ask to see it.
EMFcomp’s surveys are led by a Chartered Radiation Protection Professional and Fellow of the SRP. The company is an Affiliate of the Society for Radiological Protection and an alumnus of the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centre. With more than 500 electromagnetic field assessments behind us, in every sector, we know radiation safety, electromagnetic radiation testing and the EMF regulations, standards and guidance inside out.
03What Makes EMFcomp Leaders in EMF Assessment?
Decades of work in electromagnetic radiation protection, and the skills and knowledge that only come with it. We keep investing in equipment and training too, so the EMF exposure services you receive keep improving.
The proof is in the work. We co-wrote the European Commission’s ‘Practical Guide to the EMF Directive’, the guidance that underpins compliance assessment under the UK’s Control of Electromagnetic Fields at Work Regulations 2016 (CEMFAW). Every piece of advice, every measurement and every model we provide is grounded in published scientific research, much of it our own.
