# Safety Code 6 uncontrolled reference level, 6–15 GHz

> 10 W/m² (61.4 V/m) averaged over 6 minutes — the flat plateau above 6 GHz, identical to the ICNIRP figure.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/limits/safety-code-6-public-6-15-ghz
- Collection: Exposure limits
- Record id: `limits:sc6-public-6-15ghz`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/limits/safety-code-6-public-6-15-ghz

## Key values

- **Limit value:** 1 × 10^7 µW/m² — Guideline value — scientific recommendation — Safety Code 6 (2015) Table 5 lists E = 61.4 V/m, H = 0.163 A/m and S = 10 W/m² for uncontrolled environments in this band; the controlled-environment plateau is 50 W/m². [hc-safety-code-6, hc-safety-code-6-pdf]
- **Quantity:** power density
- **Frequency band:** 6000–15,000 MHz
- **Population:** general public
- **Set by:** Health Canada Safety Code 6 (2015) (2015 revision)
- **Kind:** Guideline — scientific recommendation
- **Averaging time:** 6 minutes — A measurement must use the same averaging before it can be compared with this value.

## Sources

- `hc-safety-code-6` Health Canada (2015). *Limits of Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Energy in the Frequency Range from 3 kHz to 300 GHz (Safety Code 6)*. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/health-risks-safety/limits-human-exposure-radiofrequency-electromagnetic-energy-range-3-300.html — guideline, link checked 2026-08-12
- `hc-safety-code-6-pdf` Government of Canada Publications (2015). *Safety Code 6 (2015), H129-48/2015E-PDF — official PDF edition*. https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/sc-hc/H129-48-2015-eng.pdf — 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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