Is this high power  RF or acoustics, and are people to be present during testing or is it all fully automated ? We tend to keep people out of our RF chambers once the fields approach the ICNIRP public  limits then you can give the experiment a pretty free hand, but the key stuff is automated and done with compressed air.

And how high is high for your application ?

Mike

Thank you for your response.

It is RF testing.

During these tests, the customers responsible for the satellite will be present within the chamber for real-time monitoring of the satellite's performance and conducting auto-compatibility tests.

Safety is paramount in our testing procedure. My role extends to the implementation of stringent safety guidelines, especially given the presence of individuals within the chamber. This includes maintaining safe oxygen levels with the hypoxic system and providing guidance on operating the thermal imaging system. Is there any references for safety guidelines while performing these tests?

Thank you for your response.

It is RF testing.

During these tests, the customers responsible for the satellite will be present within the chamber for real-time monitoring of the satellite's performance and conducting auto-compatibility tests.

Safety is paramount in our testing procedure. My role extends to the implementation of stringent safety guidelines, especially given the presence of individuals within the chamber. This includes maintaining safe oxygen levels with the hypoxic system and providing guidance on operating the thermal imaging system. Is there any references for safety guidelines while performing these tests?

I presume you are familiar with ICNIRP? If not look here

If the door is shut then confined working may also apply 
https://www.hse.gov.uk/confinedspace/legislation.htm

I would suggest to your "customers responsible for the satellite will be present"

At the risk of pantomime,

"Oh not they won't, " once you get above these levels...



The six minutes relates to the thermal stabilisation time of an adult human - so averaged over 6 mins you can hit ten times these levels at a ten % transmission duty cycle, , though actually I'd want to see a damn good justification of being that close to the limit if it was my chamber...
The trough from the low tens of MHz to a few hundreds of MHz  relates to typical body parts being a resonant fraction of a wavelength ' we become  'good antennas' at these frequencies, rather less so above and below, so a higher level can be tolerated without damage risk.

For old folk and young kids, whose thermal management may be compromised,  the 'general' safe levels are a bit lower than these occupational ones.

Is the thermal imaging passive on body heat, and / or are  you also adding artificial sun light to emulate worst case solar load ?

Significant extra heat and light on the users will limit the time they can be there, possibly quite dramatically.

If not I'd not worry first  about hypoxia, I'd worry about cooking them with RF..  (or is there a problem with ventilation as well ?)
Equally my personal bias is towards stuff I have worked on - which is not quite this.

It is quite common to have folk in fields of say 200, even 500 V/m during tests, even at 100MHz, but to organise the tests to short  bursts of full power and then change to a test that does not need it, so there is time to cool off, or or cycle the personnel, so that no one person is there for too long.

Mike.

Mike.

Thanks for your insights. I will look into this.