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Recommendations for the Safety of People and Instruments in Ground-Penetrating Radar and Near-Surface Geophysical Prospecting

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This book offers an in-depth overview on the risks associated to Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Near-Surface Geophysical Prospecting, providing the reader with practical recommendations for the safety of people and instruments.
The book stems out from the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action TU1208 “Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar” (www.GPRadar.eu). It also benefited from the significant contribution of renowned experts not involved in the Action.
Among the main topics dealt with in the book, the reader will find:
– general recommendations for a safe prospecting and minimal safety equipment to be brought in the field;
– specific advice for experimental campaigns carried out in challenging environmental situations;
– appropriate precautions related to specific kinds of GPR applications;
– dangers associated to electromagnetic emissions and European regulations for GPR manufacturers and end-users.
The book includes a short medical first aid guide as well, which is specifically conceived for near-surface geophysical prospecting. Suggestions for correct use and safe transport of the equipment are finally provided.

© 2015 EAGE Publications bv

Table of Contents

Preface: The COST Action TU1208
1 General issues and recommendations

1.1 Introduction
1.2 General recommendations
1.3 Minimal safety equipment
1.4 Additional safety equipment
1.5 Hygienic precautions
1.6 Alimentary precautions
1.7 Eye protection
1.8 Vaccinations
1.9 Heavy objects
1.10 Pregnant women

2 Challenging environmental situations
2.1 Introduction
2.2 High temperature
2.3 Low temperature
2.4 Rain
2.5 Height over the sea level
2.6 Acoustic noise
2.7 Ultraviolet radiation
2.8 Pollution, smokes and dusts
2.9 Insects
2.10 Venomous animals
2.11 Other animals
2.12 Particular plants
2.13 Insulated areas
2.14 Prospecting by night
2.15 Prospecting on lakes and rivers
2.16 Precautions in the use of some auxiliary objects in the field

3 Issues and recommendations related to specific kinds of prospecting
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Demining
3.3 Bridge and road investigation
3.4 Archaeology
3.5 Sedimentology
3.6 Mining and tunneling
3.7 GPR surveying in polar regions
3.8 Forensic investigations
3.9 Borehole applications
3.10 Safety in other geophysical techniques

4 First medical aid
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Problems related with high temperature: heatstroke and fainting
4.3 Problems related with low temperature: hypothermia and frostbite
4.4 Problems related with mountain sickness
4.5 Problems with acoustic stress
4.6 Problems with ultraviolet radiations
4.7 Problems from bites of insects
4.8 Bites from venomous animals
4.9 Bites from possibly infected animals
4.10 Contact with venomous plants
4.11 Asthmatic crises
4.12 Wounds and blows
4.13 Faint

5 GPR radio emissions
5.1 Danger from radio emissions
5.2 Regulation limits
5.3 Needed documentation (in Europe) for GPR manufacturers
5.4 Duties for the users

6 Safety of the instruments and of the environment
6.1 Precautions in the use of the geophysical instruments
6.2 Transport of the instruments
6.3 Safety while driving
6.4 Respect of the surrounding environment

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