Compliance
Risk Management
Corporate
From 2016 onwards, organisations will be required to
monitor, manage and reduce electromagnetic exposure
levels for their staff. This places a responsibility on the
corporate IT and Health and Safety teams to ensure that
the organisational environment is a safe and healthy place
to work.
As members of the UK Health and Safety
Executive Industry Working Group,
we are working to develop best practice
methodology and guidance related to
Wireless Technology. EMF directive
35/2013 issued by the European
Union central committee requires that
Companies demonstrate compliance
at an audit and control level, to the
Action Level Values listed within the
directive. Companies have three years to
implement these controls.
Organisations may face legal issues
that relate to Electromagnetic Radiation
risk exposure for their employees. This
may occur where employees have not
been provided with safety guidance for
using company issued equipment like
mobile phones, headsets or wireless devices,
or where staff are located in 'hot zones'.
A number of High Court cases have already
set legal precedents. These risks can be
reduced or eliminated once understood.
An EM Safety Survey Report will identify
what actions are required.
This course will enable key members
of the organisation to issue appropriate
safety instructions or make technical
change decisions, in line with the
precautionary principles which have
been published by regulatory authorities.
It covers the history, cause-and-effect
mechanisms, safety standards and
best practice for deploying or handling
devices which emit microwave radiation.
The course content is summarised here.
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