Effects of Household Appliances Magnetic leakage on Health

many organizations and scholars have rang the bell of warning for the effects of the electromagnetic fields that might be of a hazard on human wellbeing. Based on these concerns international organizations concerned with human health like the World health organization (WHO), the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as well as many other international bodies set standards to the limit of exposer to these fields generated by electrical and communication equipment. This paper presents the results of field measurements of the magnetic field leakage intensity that have been done on some of the electric house hold appliances that in daily use and associate the measured results with the internationally set limits. The obtained results from all the field tests in general were well below the standard set limits, where the range of the magnetic leakage was between 0.02 to 17.45 microtesla (µT).

I. Introduction

The electric power became the main world economic driver and hence power transmission lines, switching stations and distribution network are spread all over to provide electrical power to consumers. Due to advancement in technology household are crowded with various electric appliances. All these power equipment and appliances generate electromagnetic fields, which recently have drawn an attention from many researches and officials all over the world in order to know the effect of ELF electric and magnetic fields on the surrounding environment. This is initiated many studies on all these appliances. Associated with the advancement in technology, human societies became totally dependent on electric equipment in their daily life and hence they become in a continuous contact with the fields that are generated by these equipment.