The Impacts on Management of Electromagnetic Compatibility

Science, the world over, is randomly pushing the frontiers of electromagnetic incompatibility into all disciplines with no known attempt being made to coordinate this work or evaluate what is happening. The result is an extending rash of technical side-effects, many entirely unexpected, in an increasing number of disciplines and environments. These are beginning to plague both originators and users and to present serious problems to management. With new sources of electromagnetic and electrostatic energy now often exceeding both natural and man-made thresholds, these technical side-effects are beginning to show up as mutations in biological fields, changes in chemical solutions, and metallurgy reacting to environments not in the textbooks. The military is already studying these technical side-effects which it calls radiation hazards, or RAD HAZ. But there are also nontechnical side-effects beginning to show up in the three "Ls," Legal, Labor and Legislative, which are of more concern to management than to technical personnel. It is these three which are to be discussed in this paper.