Risk management policies and practices regarding radio frequency electromagnetic fields: results from a WHO survey risk

Risk communication

• risk assessment
• risk management

Endpoint

• exposure limits for mobile phones, fixed installations and occupational exposure; provisions for information on exposure to the public and for advising the public on how to reduce personal exposure; provisions for measurements around fixed installations and to prevent public access; influence of penetration rate of mobile phones on national risk management policy

Considered exposure sources

• • RF field
• • Radio/TV transmitter
  • mobile communications
  • mobile phone
  • mobile phone base station
• • occupational
  • residential
  • personal

Investigated group

86 countries representing all WHO regions took part in a survey in 2012.