REPORT Date : 27th June 2013

To : Director ofInstitute of Occupational Safety and Health

From : Manager of Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

Subject : Reports issue on mobile phones usage

INTRODUCTION

A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone, and a hand phone) is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over aradio link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. By contrast, a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single, private base station. We cannot image our life without the mobile phone. Like this, it is obviously a truth that using mobile phones gives us enormous benefits in all aspects. Otherwise, this causes some trouble in a specific situation. In this essay, I will explain about the advantages and disadvantages of using mobile phones with some examples to support my opinion. At first, I believe that using mobile phone have contributed our communication to make easier than before. As you know, 30 years ago, all people should grasp a landline phone or go to the public telephone booth to make a call. In addition to that, 50 years ago, we should post a mail or visit someone to communicate. However, in recent times, we can talk with foreigners who live overseas, whenever we want. Furthermore, we are able to save our time

and reduce the business trip expenditure and avoid being traffic jams and prevent environmental pollution by the combustion of the fuel.

Conversely, some people have been suffering from careless using mobile phones of others. We can see some rude people who speak loudly in public places, in particular in libraries, trains and theatres. It makes severe noise and quarrel sometimes. Actually, according to the previous news, a certain person killed someone with cruel assault because of the reason that he spoke too loudly in a train. As another example, the camera of mobile phones sometimes disturbs a persons privacy. In case of a certain country, the government has legislated to prohibit from taking a photo in public places such as a swimming pool and a spa. In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also support a wide variety of other services such as text messaging, MMS, email, Internet access, short-range wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth), business applications, gaming and photography. Mobile phones that offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones. Today, mobile phone has become popular to everybody since it is very convenient. The most advantage of having a mobile phone is you can communicate to your family and your friends no matter what where you are. For instance, you can contact easily to your friends by calling or sending messages everywhere without electricity. It is maybe the main reason why almost all people today choose to own a mobile phone. From the customers point of view, it is obvious that mobile phones assist you in business a lot, such as, make schedule of working, surf the internet, and keep in touch with their companies. Moreover, you can relax with mobile phones applications, for example, play games, listen to music, or chat with your friends.

Present situation, identify the problems On the other hand, there are also disadvantages. Using a lot mobile phone can harm your brain, particularly teenager and children who are under 16 years old. If you use mobile phones too much, you will get bad effects like dizzy, blood-brain

barrier, or ears problems. In addition, when you use mobile phones while you are driving, you will get an accident. It is essential not good for you and others. Moreover, radiations emitted from the phone are dead harmful for the eardrum, has proved by many scientist.

Owning a mobile phone in your hand is you can solve many issues and hold most of information around the world. Even though is not good for your health and you have to protect yourself from bad effects of mobile phones if you choose to have one. This says Dr. Olle Johansson, M.D., professor at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Sweden, world famous for being responsible for awarding the Nobel Prize in medicine. He has studied the effects of mobile phones, Wifi etc on humans since over 20 years and finds the evidence are compelling about serious hazards. Professor Johansson finds that the brain tumor issue is a minor thing compared to many other harmful effects. While brain tumors affect a small percentage other serious effects affect the whole population including genetic damage, sleep disturbances, psychological reduced learning capacity, concentration difficulties and

problems.

Johansson finds it is serious that the politicians take such risks with the whole population in spite of repeated earnest warnings from scientists. He points out that the level of eclectromagnetic exposure that we are exposed to is huge compared with what has been there through billions of years before. If this radiation is not dangerous, then a large number of high quality scientific papers reporting harmful effects of the radiation hazards must be wrong, but it is highly unlikely that they all are wrong says professor Johansson.

In almost every country studied, mobile phones have created new problems for social order. Although cell phones are a valued and powerful

tool for communication and for the maintenance of social relationships, there are aspects of cell phones which are

problematic, and many societies are discussing problems that have arisen due to the power and ubiquity of cell phones. The ability to not only transmit voice, but also to collect and record visual images has created new challenges for societies in terms of new conflicts between personal freedom of expression and rights to privacy. The

ability to communicate despite separation in time and space provides new and exciting possibilitiesfor communication with others. Thisnew availability is considered to be very positive, but at the same time creates conflicts. New conflicts and challenges are not only relevant to mobile phones but to other new forms of new communication technology. Mobile phone be technology facilitates dispersed and still easier to both separation be available) communicate of

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society are experiencing great challenges in managing simultaneous contexts the face-to-face and the digitally mediated--which may have very different types of

participants and require quite different forms of talk, and different degrees of responsibility and responsiveness. A common problem is how to conduct private or intimate conversations in public spaces. Conventional forms of etiquette do not provide models

for new technologically mediated social interactions.

Many individuals across the 15 societies report new tensions about duties to others as these are impacted by cell phones. The problems involve how to show appropriately respectful attention and response to multiple needs. What started out as a means of adult communication has become a teen status symbol and a new age addiction, and it is not a drug: Its a cell phone. Recent research at Baylor University finds the link between materialism and IT devices are creating a generation of learned compulsive behavior. With four billion cell phones in use today, thats a substantial amount of compulsion. Cell phones act like a pacifier for impulsiveness, which is a major component of addiction. Studies reported by the Journal of Behavioral

Sciences show that young adult send an average of 109.5 text messages daily and check their cell phones an average of 60 times a day. Dr. Rick Naurert, an expert in clinical, administrative and academic healthcare and an associate professor for Rocky Mountain University claims his research shows 22 percent of cell phone users describe themselves as Heavy users with eight percent paying bills of $500 or more per month. A large survey showed 28 percent of cell phone users use their device to contact partners, 28 percent contact close friends, 26 percent contact family and only 11 percent use the phone for business. New York City based Psychiatrist Dr. Jeremy Spiegel, founder of Casco Bay Medical with offices in Danvers Mass. and Portland Maine found that cell phone socialization is skeletal and interferes or replaces interfacing with people on a much needed social level. The device is creating what some experts call the Narcissist Generation - those who truly believe they are so important and popular with their thoughts they make themselves available to whom over needs them. The cell and text addiction feeds the misplaced sense of self-importance and is now exacerbated by twitter, making the young sycophantic and susceptible to non-gainful unintelligent chatter. This meaningless chatter is time consuming and can displace activities of greater personal value.

The popularity of cell phones and social media can also be seen as a signifier of the loneliness, alienation, and sense of separation that modern societies generate. Our use of cell phones and social media represents escape attempts in which we try to achieve a kind of electronic togetherness or virtual community. What the long-term consequences of the new media on American society and societies everywhere will be, for the new media are now global in nature, is hard to say. Cell phones and the social media represent a major transformation in the way societies function. The ubiquity of cell phones and the popularity of the social media are signifiers of a new social order in which anyone and almost everyone can make their presence known, by sending messages, photos, and videos that potentially can be accessed by a huge number of people. This has had the effect of breaking the monopoly on sending messages in the mass media that was held by traditional media such as radio, television, magazines, and newspapers. Here is some suggestion on how to reduce th influence of cell phone in our daily life. Cell phones should be used for emergencies, and not for long conversations. A small chip-like cell phone microwave radiation protection device is available, which has the ability to absorb electromagnetic energy waves from your mobile phone. It helps in reducing the potential harmful effects of these emissions to the human body. Using a mobile headset is a good idea, you don't have to hold phones next to your ears all the time and lastly use a hands free mobile car kit while driving, without taking your hands off the steering wheel. Mobile phones are able to be recycled at the end of their life. Rapid technology change, low initial cost, and even planned obsolescence have resulted in a fast-growing surplus, which contributes to the increasing amount of electronic waste around the globe. Recyclers consider electronic waste a "rapidly expanding" issue. In the United States, an estimated 70% of heavy metals in landfills comes from discarded electronics, while electronic waste represents only 2% of America's trash in landfills.

While some recycle, 7% of mobile phone owners still throw away their old phones. Mobile phones are "considered hazardous waste" in California; many chemicals system.
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of the iPhone battery into its handset hinders its being recycled. It also states that its scientists found toxic phthalates on iPhone cables, and it holds that this contravenes California's Proposition 65, which requires warning labels on products exposing consumers to phthalates. Because the United States has not ratified the Basel Convention or its Ban Amendment, and has no domestic laws forbidding the export of toxic waste, the Basel Action Network estimates that about 80% of the electronic waste directed to recycling in the U.S. does not get recycled there at all, but is put on container ships and sent to countries such as China. Guiyu in

the Shantou region of China, and Delhi and Bangalore in India, have electronic waste processing areas. the need for changes, or describe any costs benefits Globalisation is the new mantra. In this age, it is very difficult not to have technology. But with technology, come certain hazards. The only way to beat these is again, better technology. Electromagnetic radiation is everywhere. More and more wireless communication services (cellular phones, paging, wireless Internet) are expected so is the artificial electromagnetic radiation. It seems that there is no way to reverse this trend. Scientists and engineers are developing better and safer wireless systems and devices. Smaller cell size, better base station antennas and other more advanced technologies will allow future cell phones to radiate much lower power. So one can only hope that cell phone hazards will be reduced. Conclusion involved and/or expected

Owning a mobile phone in your hand is you can solve many issues and hold most of information around the world. Even though is not good for your health and you have to protect yourself from bad effects of mobile phones if you choose to have one. Mobile phones can be considered as mini-computers with more and more modern generations. They cause a tendency in people all over the world to buy the top-of-the-range mobiles that express their styles, characters, etc. For that reason, each year a large sum of money has been wasted in buying new mobile phones and solving the problems of decomposing the old ones while we can use this money to support many poor countries in the world to make the life of the people there better. It is clear that mobile phones bring a lot of problems to our life. In conclusion, I think people should learn how to use the mobile phones properly before buying them, which is the mobile culture. Mobile phones are not bad themselves, it just depends on the way we use them

References
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