Personal Protective
Equipment Is there personal protective equipment at the site for your use? If so, and if it is not for your use, is it utilized by an escort on the rooftop while you are performing your work? Personal Pretective Equipment, such as the Narda personal monitors, provide the easiest and most effective way of determining potential realtime exposure while at a rooftop site. If there is personal protective equipment available, this is yet another good sign that steps have been taken to determine compliance at this site.

Access restrictions
Are there access restrictions at the site? Do you have to have the rooftop egress unlocked for you, or is the door to the rooftop unlocked/unsecured? Do you have to present safety-training credentials to gain access? On the actual rooftop itself, are there areas that may be fenced or roped off, or demarcated in a specific way, in order to prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access? If some or all of these measures are in place, these are good indicators that steps have been taken to ensure compliance at this site.

Proper marking/placement of antennas & transmitters
At well managed rooftop communications sites, all antennas will be placed at locations where they are above human head height, or on the outer edges of the building, so as to prevent personnel from walking in front of them. In addition, well managed rooftop communications sites will have each transmitter properly marked, with the license for that transmitter on display and up to date. Cable runs will be properly mounted in ice bridges, and labeled to match antennas and transmitters to each other. There will be no unused or disconnected antennas present at the site. If any of these measures have been taken at a rooftop site you have visited, that is yet another sign that steps have in all likelihood been taken to ensure that site is in compliance. A well organized, neatly constructed site can be one of the first steps towards a compliant site.

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