Royal Decree 299/2016: worker protection from electromagnetic fields

The employer has the obligation to assess the risks arising from electromagnetic fields in the workplace, thus ensuring that the necessary measures to reduce the risks can be defined and put into practice.

Serious and very serious infractions derived from non-compliance with the obligations established in RD 299/2016, may be sanctioned with amounts of up to 40,000 euros and 819,000 euros respectively, at the proposal of the labor inspection in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Violations and Sanctions in the Social Order.

Risk assessments can be carried out by Occupational Risk Prevention services, either Internal or External, and in any case, they must be signed by qualified personnel for the performance of higher-level functions with the specialty of industrial hygiene. The evaluations will be carried out with the appropriate periodicity indicated in article 6 of RD 39/1997, which will include, if necessary, the performance of measurements or calculations of the levels of electromagnetic fields to which the workers are exposed, to guarantee that they do not exceed the Exposure Limit Values or Action Levels established in RD 299/2016.
 
At Apave we have all the necessary equipment to carry out the measures required to verify compliance with the Action Levels and Exposure Limit Values.

In the event of exceeding the Exposure Limit Values or Action Levels, the employer is responsible for intervening immediately in order to:

• Reduce exposure levels
• Determine the causes of said overcoming
• Modify protection and prevention measures

 

And in addition, in general, the employer must:

• Provide information and training to your staff
• Have the participation of workers in risk management
• Apply practices in relation to health surveillance

Our Employee Prevention Service is accredited by the Ministry of Labor at the national level. Since the year 2000, Apave has carried out its work offering support to the employer for the development of preventive management.

The Apave External Prevention Service has an interdisciplinary team that covers the four specialties established in Law 31/1995 on Prevention of Occupational Risks:

• Work Safety
• Industrial hygiene
• Ergonomics and Applied Psychosociology
• Work Medicine

 

Royal Decree 299/2016 - Measurement equipment All our actions are carried out in accordance with strict technical and regulatory quality assurance standards. The starting point of our interventions is based on the initial risk assessment, the planning of preventive action and the periodic control of working conditions.

Our Radioelectric Emissions department positions us as leaders in assessing the levels of exposure of the general public around radioelectric installations, in accordance with RD 1066/2001, of September 28, which approves the Regulation that establishes protection conditions for the radioelectric public domain, restrictions on radioelectric emissions and health protection measures against radioelectric emissions. Since 2002 we have been working in the field of radioelectric emissions, with more than 90,000 independent evaluations submitted to the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda.

The work team is made up of highly qualified engineers and technicians who have state-of-the-art equipment duly calibrated. In addition, we continuously collaborate with the Administration, Universities and Collegiate Bodies of the sector.

By uniting our extensive experience as an External Prevention Service and relying on our leadership in the field of radioelectric emission assessment, we are in a position to offer all clients an integral and complete service, adapting it to their needs.