The electromagnetic fields directive deals with health and safety at work, and applies to work activities where workers are exposed to risks from electromagnetic fields.
The directive places a number of duties on employers, including the duties to:
- conduct a risk assessment and calculate EMF strengths.
- eliminate or reduce as low as possible the risk of exposure and where risk can’t be eliminated that measures are devised by the employer to reduce the risk of exposure below ELV (Exposure Limit Value).
- provide the risk assessment to the nominated person responsible for health surveillance
- hold an investigation and medical examination where an employee is ‘detected’ as having been exposed;
- to keep records of Health surveillance activities
Now, more than ever, we need as many individual companies to register their concern over the possible implications of the directive.
If your company may be affected, please let us know so that we can most effectively represent your interests and successfully defuse the directive.