On 31 Aug 2013, at 16:40, Hurt,Trenton W. wrote:
So I had to turn off aps for a person on my campus for areas they where visiting due to rf sickness. They provided a dr note too. Has anyone every had a request for something like this?
Not heard of RF-sickness with a doctors note, but we have similar scenarios.
I work in the healthcare sector, and it's quite common that we have episodes where people want to turn off our AP's (and some people just unplug them without asking -- often repeatedly even if they're told to not do it). Both patients and employes do this, and especially of the previous generation (i.e. older people).
The ironic part is that some of these are doctors and/or professors within the field of radiation, and they have pagers and mobile phones on them while standing there pointing towards the AP they would like to have turned off. (-:
In any case, NRPA (Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority) has some reports they've made that we throw in the faces of people trying to argue to have the AP's turned off (which uses approximately the same numbers as ICNIRP, which again is approximately the same numbers as you guys use in the US).
In some scenarios where they keep unplugging the AP, or if it's on a psych ward, we use external antennas (with the AP mounted above the ceiling), or if that's not possible (due to fixed sealing, etc), we use Oberon enclosures to limit the physical access to the AP (which also have the added effect of not showing the LED).
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