Documents from Davos meetings in June 2009 are available in the Meetings - Minutes page on this website.
ICES & NATO Join Forces. On 15 May 2009, the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) signed an agreement with the NATO Standardization Agency (NSA) that, among other provisions, assigns ICES responsibility for maintaining the NATO human exposure standard for RF. Present at the signing ceremony were ICES leaders Ralf Bodemann and Ron Petersen, as well as ICES member, B. Jon Klauenberg who led finalizing and negotiating the agreement between NATO-SA and IEEE. Link to IEEE-SA press release.
The Health Physics Society, specialists in radiation safety, has issued a Fact Sheet (September 2009) on the possible health effects of emissions from mobile telephones and their base stations. The Fact Sheet is authored by ICES member Kenneth R. Foster, University of Pennsylvania.
The IEEE EMF database IEEE C95.1 Literature Review is now available.
ICES Editorial Committee members met 14-15 July 2009 to draft a Project Authorization Request (PAR) for the new NATO EMF Standardization Agreement (STANAG), and to plan the combination of IEEE ICES Standards C95.6-2002 and C95.1-2005 into one integrated document covering 0 (static fields) to 300 GHz. In the photo from left to right are C-K. Chou, Ken Gettman, Ron Petersen, J. Patrick Reilly, Marvin Ziskin, Ralf Bodemann, and B. Jon Klauenberg. The meeting was hosted by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) in Rosslyn, VA, USA.
ICES Editorial Committee
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ICES members attended an EU meeting in Umeå, Sweden. Chairman Ralf Bodemann, TC95 Chair C-K. Chou, and members Pat Reilly and B Jon Klauenberg attended the meeting on “Occupational Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields: paving the way for a future EU initiative” held on 6–8 October 2009, at Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
ICES members in Umeå
Before the meeting, on October 5, Pat Reilly gave a Seminar on “Electrical Dosimetry in Electrostimulation of Nerve and Muscle” at the University Hospital of Northern Sweden. In the morning of October 6, Pat Reilly presented “Electro-Stimulation Principles For Low-Frequency EMF Exposure Standards”. In the afternoon of October 6, Ralf Bodemann chaired a session on International Guidelines, which included the ICNIRP guidelines reported by Paolo Vecchia, and the “IEEE EMF Exposure Standards” presented by C-K. Chou. On the next day, B Jon Klauenberg gave a talk on “NATO Stakeholder Perspective On EU Directive 2004/40/EC”. Then in the final panel discussion, Ralf Bodemann represented Business Europe, and also ICES. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss how to resolve the problems in implementing the ICNIRP guidelines for workers in Europe. One of the major outcomes of this meeting is the inevitable need to harmonize the two international standards: the ICNIRP guidelines and ICES standards. All meeting presentations are available here.
ICES Comments on ICNIRP Draft “GUIDELINES FOR LIMITING EXPOSURE TO TIME-VARYING ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS (1 Hz TO 100 kHz)" ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) has drafted “Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to Time-varying Electric and Magnetic Fields (1 Hz to 100 kHz)” and requested comments from the scientific community. ICES has submitted its consultation response to ICNIRP’s request. The ICES response is in two parts, the first being a detailed review by one of its members, J. Patrick Reilly, and endorsed by the ICES organization, and the other being additional comments provided by the ICES subcommittees on Safety Levels with Respect to Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Energy.