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Description
Under national legislation on electromagnetic fields in the European Union, employers are obliged to determine whether electric, magnetic or electromagnetic fields (EMF) are occurring at the workplace of employees and whether any potential health and/or safety hazards arise from the resulting EMF exposure. In this context, special attention must be paid to employees fitted with medical implants.
Recommendations for carrying out a specific risk assessment are provided in the standards EN 50527-2-1 (for pacemakers) and EN 50527-2-2 (for implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD)). However, the assessment options presented there are numerous and not all of them are well suited for use in practice.
Here, we describe a hands-on risk assessment for employees with active or passive medical implants based on measured EMF exposure at the workplace and in accordance with the normative requirements.
