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 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

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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 person’s 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 customer’s 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 phone’s 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

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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, reduced learning capacity, concentration difficulties and

psychological 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.

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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 areproblematic, 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 technology facilitates both separation

of people (in that people can be dispersed and still be available)

and facilitates linking people together (in that it is easier to communicate

with people previously unavailable). Members of 

society are experiencing great challenges in managing simultaneous contexts—

the facetoface and

the digitally mediatedwhich 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 inpublic spaces. Conventional forms of etiquette do not provide models

for new technologically mediated social interactions.

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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 startedout as a means of adult communication has become a teen status symbol and a

new age addiction, and it is not a drug: It’s 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, that’s 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 whomover 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.

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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 amountof 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.

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While some recycle, 7% of mobile phone owners still throw away their old

phones. Mobile phones are "considered hazardous waste" in California; many

chemicals in such phones leach from landfills into the groundwater 

system.[4] Environmental advocacy group Greenpeace claims that the soldering

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 involved and/or expected

benefits

Globalisation is the new mantra. In this age, it is very difficult not to havetechnology. 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

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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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