Evaluation of farmers' OSH hazard in operationnearby mobile telephone radio base stations

Abstract

In this paper, the authors investigated in the farmers' EMF exposures when they operate in the vicinity of mobile telephone RBSs in order to assess if in the operating frequency range of a transmitting station used by mobile phone service the limits imposed by the Italian laws are kept into proper consideration. Three mobile telephone RBSs having different geometrical and technical features, placed on rural areas of the Apulia Region have been considered. By means of a series of parallelepipeds constructed using a piece of software specifically designed it is possible to state that effective electric field that each of the three investigated stations produced was such that the exposure levels to which farmers are subjected in the surrounding SRB areas are safely within the Italian law limits.