Guidance note: risk management of workers with medical electronic devices and metallic implants in electromagnetic fields risk

Risk communication

• risk identification
• risk assessment
• risk management
• risk control

Endpoint

• potential risk of injurious interactions between occupational electromagnetic fields and medical electronic devices or metallic implants (e.g., electromagnetic interference, displacement, electrostimulation or heating of adjacent tissue); occupational hygiene; advising workers and employers regarding safety and necessary changes to work practices

Considered exposure sources

• • electric field
  • magnetic field
  • static magnetic field
  • RF field
  • microwaves
• • therapeutic/medical device
  • radar
  • Radio/TV transmitter
  • microw. oven/heating device
  • mobile communications
  • mobile phone base station
  • wireless transmitter
• • occupational

Investigated group

worker with medical electronic devices and metallic implants.