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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on September 15, 2009
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncp163
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO AMBIENT ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS OF TECHNICAL OPERATIONAL PERSONNEL WORKING FOR A MOBILE TELEPHONE OPERATOR

S. Chauvin1,*, M. L. Gibergues1, G. Wüthrich1, D. Picard2, J. P. Desreumaux1 and J. C. Bouillet1

1 Bouygues Telecom, Direction Fréquences et protection, 20 Quai du Point du jour, 92640 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
2 Supélec, Département Electromagnétisme, 3 rue Joliot Curie, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

* Corresponding author: sechauvi{at}bouyguestelecom.fr

Received November 24, 2008, amended July 27, 2009, accepted July 30, 2009

In order to investigate the exposure of operational personnel to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields when working for a mobile telephone operator, exposimeters were used to make individual records on 23 Technical Operations personnel (mobile telephone maintenance staff) and also on 22 Other Workers. The exposure densities, to which each of the 45 subjects was subjected, were quantified using 229 exposure indicators. Cluster analysis techniques were applied to the data, in an attempt to show that they would re-emerge as belonging to one of the two groups, i.e. the Technical Operational Personnel group or the Other Workers group. This exploratory investigation has shown that the cluster analysis does not reveal a sufficiently reliable emergence of the two groups, even though certain exposure indicators were significantly different for the two groups. In addition, the use of a Learning Group method does not lead to the discovery of a predictive law that could identify the Technical Operational Personnel as a sub-group within the overall group.


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