Naslov
Occupational exposure to EM radiation in the range from 800 to 2500 MHz – What are we really talking about?

Autori
Prlić, Ivica ; Surić Mihić, Marija

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of the IRPA ; / - Buenos Aires : International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA), 2008

Skup
12th International Congress of the IRPA - Strengthening Radiation Protection Worldwide

Mjesto i datum
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19.10.2008. - 24.10.2008

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Ostalo

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Occupational exposure to EM radiation; SAR; nonionizing radiation

Sažetak
Precautionary principle is explicitly laid down in the EU treaty and is one of the starting points of its environmental policy. European Commission made a statement 1 in February 2000 regarding the use of precautionary principle indicating that principle should be applied where there is a reasonable suspicion of the existence of a health or environmental risk. Furthermore, the Commission indicates that measures based on the precautionary principle should not be aimed at completely precluding any risk ; it assumes that such an effort is unrealistic. In the Council Recommendation of 12 July 1999 on the limitation of exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz) (CEU)2 1 Commission of the European Communities. Communication from the Commission on the precautionary principle. Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, 2000 ; (publication nr COM(2000)1). 2 Official Journal of the European Communities 1999 ; L199, 59-70. the following comment is made in Appendix I: “ However, since there is a safety factor of about 50 between the threshold values for acute effects and the basis restrictions, this recommendation implicitly covers possible long-term effects in the whole frequency range.” Both, the comment and the Council Recommendation are addressing the human health. This concern over human health was raised up because modern society is highly sensitive to extended growth of mobile and wireless telecommunication technologies regardless of their obvious economic and societal benefits. This growth was followed with the changes in working environment and with gestation of new types of working places. Occupational medicine is challenged with the new working stressor which has to be scientifically acceptable introduced in daily life. Natural nonionizing background radiation is covering the globe with much more complex space matrix than natural ionizing background radiation. There is a decision to be made weather the occupational exposure to RF is to be regarded as potentially hazardous or is simply to be added to a person total exposure to such fields. We are proposing the reasonable protocol for the how to decide and judge the occupational exposure to RF fields originating from telecommunication technologies.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Fizika, Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita

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