A Study of the Exposure Strength to Non-Ionizing Radiation Within Safety Perimeter: Case of Mobile Networks’ Transmitters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

  • Traore Issa, Zamble Raoul, Silue Dozohoua, Kouadio Konan Romuald, Gbegbe Raymond

Abstract

The growth in terms of radio site number due to the development of mobile telephony, today raises the harmfulness issue of the radiation produced by these installations on the human body. This situation has led national supervisory bodies to carry out regular checks on the intensity levels of these radiations in accordance with limit values recommended by international bodies. Generally, in Côte d'Ivoire, exposure strengths are controlled outside the safety perimeter. The compliance of human exposure to EMF strength is based on this kind of control. This is completely normal for the populations insofar as they are supposed not to be within the safety perimeter. However, for technicians working very often within this perimeter, this kind of control proves to be unwise especially since in the majority of cases, the transmitters of these installations remain on during their interventions for the service continuity need. In addition, with the rooftop sites that are installed on apartment buildings, residents have easy access to these sites and there is no markup to materialize the safety perimeter. This exposes both workers and residents accessing the safety perimeters to EMF strength much higher than the strength measured outside the perimeter. So, this situation led the ivorian frequency management agency to carry out a pilot study on a certain number of sites in the city of Abidjan in order to control this category of person exposure level to EMF. The results of this study showed that the EMF strengths are very high and sometimes exceed the recommended limit values. These levels therefore represent potential health risks for those persons, and this conclusion led the study to suggest some recommendations with a view of strengthening health safety on radio sites in Côte d'Ivoire.

Published
2020-11-30
How to Cite
Traore Issa, Zamble Raoul, Silue Dozohoua, Kouadio Konan Romuald, Gbegbe Raymond. (2020). A Study of the Exposure Strength to Non-Ionizing Radiation Within Safety Perimeter: Case of Mobile Networks’ Transmitters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 29(04), 11098 - 11110. Retrieved from http://sersc.org/journals/index.php/IJAST/article/view/34002