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Tragically, in many lines of work and employment, a person will effectively
receive a salary in exchange for them providing a service of sorts; and in many
cases, the employee will be exposed to a number of different risks. Whenever
this topic is raised, there is a tendency among people to focus squarely on the
more extreme and obvious examples of work-related risks, such as the risk of
dismemberment for a lumberjack, or death and disability for a soldier in a
combat based situation.
However, even electrical engineers must contend with a near daily threat to
their health and long term wellbeing: electromagnetic radiation, which is
commonly abbreviated to EMR. EMR has been proven to significantly increase
the risk of cancer and the onset of a number of neurological based disorders
and dysfunctions including the likes of Alzheimer’s, dementia and senility.
Most worrying of all is the fact that EMR is totally invisible and undetectable to
the five human senses and so this has meant that because humans cannot
detect directly by our own resources, this means that we have become
complacent about the risks involved.
One of the major ways in which EMR poses a risk to the health of electrical
engineers has been due to the fact that they emit electric fields which in turn
have been proven to pose a risk of inflicting dielectric heating.
In short, dielectric heating is whereby the water retained within tissue is
heated to such a high temperature that it evaporates completely thereby
causing the surrounding tissue to shrink and warp. For this reason, electrical
engineers who work in close proximity to the likes of antenna or a high power
transmitter can suffer from very painful burns that manifest themselves both
internally and externally.
Ultimately, it is electrical engineers who will be at the very forefront of
developing practical and workable methods of mitigating the worst effects of
EMR, so that we can finally move away from our overreliance upon such
dangerous methods and technology. It is through their efforts that we can
finally ensure that we can safely use our daily products.