News Archive
9 October 2020
NIR Section Virtual Workshop Session 13 October
Fred McWilliams, NIR President; Peter Sprenger, NIR President-elect; Jerry Bushberg, NIR Past President; and Don Haes, NIR Secretary/Treasurer
The Nonionizing Radiation (NIR) Section of the Health Physics Society (HPS) will be hosting its special session during the 2020 HPS Virtual Workshop on 13 October from 2 to 5 PM EDT. We are excited about this and hope that you will join us. Register for the session on the virtual workshop website.
The session will be chaired and moderated by Fred McWilliams, Don Haes, and Pete Sprenger. Abstracts for presentations can be found on the session web page. Presentations include:
- Management of Outside Laser Devices (Richard Harvey)
- Beyond the Door Interlock: Considerations in Design of Interlocks for High-Powered Lasers (Melissa Spencer)
- Radio-Frequency Safety – What a Health Physicist Needs to Know (Greg Komp)
- The RF Relative Risk Index: A Novel Approach for Assessment and Comparison of the Relative Risk of Sources of Radio-Frequency (RF) Energy (Donald Haes)
- What Health Physicists Should Know About 5G (Ben Edwards)
- Network Overview (Aaron Miaullis)
The NIR Section Business meeting will be hosted on another day and we will send an announcement soon.
