# Australian general-public limit, 2–300 GHz

> 10 W/m² incident power density, adopted from ICNIRP 2020 by ARPANSA RPS S-1 and binding through licence conditions and the ACMA device standard.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/limits/australia-public-power-density-above-2-ghz
- Collection: Exposure limits
- Record id: `limits:arpansa-public-2-300ghz`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/limits/australia-public-power-density-above-2-ghz

## Key values

- **Limit value:** 1 × 10^7 µW/m² — Regulatory value — legally enforceable — RPS S-1 (Rev. 1) aligns Australia with the ICNIRP 2020 whole-body reference levels; RPS 3 (2002), based on ICNIRP 1998, is withdrawn. [arpansa-rps-s1, icnirp-2020]
- **Quantity:** power density
- **Frequency band:** 2–300 GHz
- **Population:** general public
- **Set by:** ARPANSA RPS S-1 (2021) (RPS S-1 (Rev. 1), February 2021)
- **Kind:** Regulatory — legally enforceable
- **Averaging time:** 30 minutes — A measurement must use the same averaging before it can be compared with this value.

## Related records

- [ARPANSA RPS S-1 (2021)](https://emfbase.com/standards/arpansa-rps-s1): Australia's RF standard for 100 kHz–300 GHz, aligned with ICNIRP 2020 and enforced through licence conditions and the ACMA device standard.
- [Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)](https://emfbase.com/organizations/arpansa): Australia's radiation protection authority, and one of the clearest public sources of measured base-station and Wi-Fi exposure data.

## Sources

- `arpansa-rps-s1` Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (2021). *Standard for Limiting Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields — 100 kHz to 300 GHz, RPS S-1 (Rev. 1)*. https://www.arpansa.gov.au/regulation-and-licensing/regulatory-publications/radiation-protection-series/codes-and-standards/rpss-1 — standard, link checked 2026-08-12
- `acma-eme-standard` Australian Communications and Media Authority (Federal Register of Legislation) (2014). *Radiocommunications (Electromagnetic Radiation — Human Exposure) Standard 2014*. https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2014L00960/asmade/2014-07-07/text/original/epub/OEBPS/document_1/document_1.html — regulation, link checked 2026-08-12
- `icnirp-2020` International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (2020). *Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (100 kHz to 300 GHz)*. https://www.icnirp.org/en/publications/article/rf-guidelines-2020.html — guideline, link checked 2026-08-12

Data licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Dataset version 2026.08.1. Retrieved from EMFBase, https://emfbase.com.

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