Protocols of electromagnetic fields measurement for workers' exposure evaluation in rehabilitation centers

The goal of the present work is to develop precise and user-friendly protocols to apply during electromagnetic fields exposure evaluation. This subject, in fact, is characterized by a lack of simple and standardized procedures compromising work of the experts involved in these evaluations. For this project, several physio kinesitherapy equipment have been selected due to their complex signals emission able to cause overexposure to the workers.With the aim of testing the developed protocols, a monitoring campaign has been conducted on several devices normally used in these working places, i.e. three tecar therapy, three magneto therapy and one radar therapy apparatuses.All the rehabilitation centers chosen to validate the protocols are internal to our institute (INAIL - National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work) and are located in the south of Italy.Despite the complexity of the measured variables, all the planned goal are achieved in terms of both procedures and exposure evaluation.