Annual General Assembly 2003 - Alexandria

Session 2 WGII

The Harmful Impact of the Electro Magnetic Fields on Seafarers

Ahmed Kassar, Yahia Mustafa Suleiman

Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport
P.O. 1029 MIAMY, ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT
AAST&MT, Latakia branch, SYRIA
E-mail: kassar@aast.edu nsuliman@scs-net.org

ABSTRACT

No seafarer whoever wants to do errors or mistakes, seafarers have been always blamed of being responsible of more than 80 % of marine accidents. Many of accident analysts related the causes of accidents to the human errors without consideration to the marine environment where seafarers always spend most of their times. One of the influences which extremely affect the seafarers behavior and response is the exposure to the local Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF) inside the ships frame. The main aim of this paper is to prove that seafarers are daily exposed to high EMF levels and indicate the harmful impact of exposure on seafarers. This paper also put some recommendations on how to minimize the impact and open the door for further researches and investigations in this crucial new era.

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