What permissible exposure limits should you always be aware of?

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The idea behind this question is recognizing that some energy hazards have formal, quantified limits to prevent injury. The hazards that you must always know the permissible exposure limits for are RF energy and optical radiation. These two have explicit standards that set maximum levels you can be exposed to, based on duration and exposure type, to prevent tissue heating, nerve stimulation, eye injuries, and skin damage. In practice, you monitor RF with field or power-density meters and optical radiation with radiometers or similar instruments, and you design controls to keep exposures below those limits.

Electrical current and voltage, magnetic fields, and thermal exposure are important safety concerns too, but they’re managed through general electrical safety practices, shielding, distancing, time, PPE, and engineering controls rather than embodying a specific, widely cited exposure limit you must always reference in the same way as RF and optical radiation.