A recent Federal Health Department audit of three mobile phone base station sites in Victoria and Tasmania has found base station radio frequency (RF) emissions are well within Australia’s safety standards.

A measurement program undertaken by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) has again shown that Australia’s telecommunications carriers are operating their antennas and base stations at levels hundreds of times below the allowable limit.

The latest survey results for the three sites at: Lalor (VIC), Pascoe Vale (VIC) and Lower Sandy Bay (TAS) revealed that emissions were less than 0.316 per cent of the safety standard, or more than 300 times below the standard.

The highest level of emissions recorded across the 12 audited sites from 2007-2009 was still only 1.163 per cent of the standard.

Results from the three most recent audited sites together with ARPANSA’s results for all audited base stations since 2007 can be found at: http://www.arpansa.gov.au/RadiationProtection/BaseStationSurvey/index.cfm