EVALUATION OF RADIATION RISK FOR SAFE WORKING ENVIRONMENTS
Project no. 1246 · Status: Kapanmış · 2017
Summary
Increase on occupational diseases which has occurred in offices during recent years, reveals the necessity of risk factors on office environment should be researched and investigated in a broader scale. Even though, the office / indoor environment is considered within the low risk works, radiation risk in office / indoor environment should be evaluated more, because of its dramatic outcomes which it creates in long term. In this study which is entitled as “ Evaluation of Radiation Risk for Safe Working Environments” which presented within that context, by making measurements of non-ionizing radiation (EMA) and ionizing radiation source radon, in areas such as library, laboratory and etc. where the student density is so high in Ege University campus and the results have been compared with the national and international sınır values, to see its convenience of working areas have been evaluated in terms of Occupational Health and Safety. It has been observed that the measured radon concentrations on the choosen stations were not over the 400 Bq/m3 which is the limit value. Also the EMA measurement results were found lower than the 41,25 V/m and 58.34 V/m limit values which were determined for the 900 Mhz and 1800 MHz frequency values. Eventhough the measurement results which has received are way lower than the limit values, it effects human health negatively when exposed by both ionized and non ionized radiation by long term. Hence, precautions should always be taken.