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Body scanners and advanced X-ray technology are being rolled out at airports across Australia. These technologies represent the most advanced means of detecting explosives, weapons and prohibited items carried in bags or on a person. Body scanners use millimetre-waves, part of the radio frequency spectrum utilised by many devices in every day public use, such as mobile phones and wireless network devices. The level of electromagnetic energy people are exposed to through body scanners is exceptionally low, thousands of times lower than that of a single phone call and comparable to passive exposure to a mobile phone used several metres away. Body scanners do not pose any known health risks to passengers or operators.
The screening policy department of home affairs would also like to reassure the public that the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency have advised body scanners in Australia do not pose any known health risks to passengers or operators and there are no known safety concerns to people with active implantable medical devices. It is a government requirement that body scanners used for security screening in Australia use non-ionising technology. This means they do not emit ionising radiation such as X-rays.
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