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TIG runs a programme of seminars that enable users of TETRA to benefit from a direct dialogue with scientists working in the field of RF health and safety. It also participates from time to time in events run by other organisations. Here you can find summaries of presentations given by experts at TIG seminars and presentations given by TIG at other events. Some of these document are pdf (Portable Document Format) files and you will need Adobe Reader® to download them.  If you do not have this installed on your computer, please click the Adobe Reader® icon for a free download.

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Some of the slide files are quite large, in these cases the sizes are given below.

2009

4 December 2009 London Seminar

The 2009 TETRA Industry Group seminar was chaired by Professor David Coggon who chairs the Mobile Telecoms and Health Research programme. The agenda included updates from Imperial College on both the long-term health monitoring study and their cognitive study; from Aston University and DSTL on their cognitive studies; from King's College London and University of Essex on their hyper-sensitivity studies; and a joint case study from London Underground and the British Transport Police.

Copies of the slides used by the speakers and brief summaries of the presentations will be made available here, once approved by the speaker.

  • Adrian Burgess - click here for a summary or here for copies of the slides.
  • David Coggon - click here for a summary or here for copies of the slides.
  • Andy Heard - click here for copies of the slides.
  • James Rubin - click here for a summary or here for copies of the slides.
  • Philip Short - click here for copies of the slides.
  • Denise Wallace - click here for a summary or here for copies of the slides.

2008

14 March 2008 London Seminar

In March 2008 the Group hosted a London seminar at which the speakers were Professor Tony Barker of the University of Sheffield discussing the results of a study on whether TETRA signals affect heart rate and blood pressure and Dr James Rubin of Kings College, London and Denise Wallace of the University of Essex describing work in progress on whether TETRA base stations or handsets have an impact on symptoms reported by those who say they suffer from electro-sensitivity.

A summary of the seminar presentations and copies of some of the slides used can be found below:

  • for a summary of the speakers’ presentations click here.

  • to see James Rubin’s slides click here (1.82MB).

  • to see Denise Wallace’s slides click here (823kB).

2007

April 2007 BAPCO Seminar

In April 2007 the Group hosted a seminar in London in conjunction with BAPCO at which the speakers were Professor Lawrie Challis, then Chairman of the MTHR Programme Management Committee, Dr John Tattersall and Sarah Smith of DSTL, and Dr Philip Chadwick, Director of EM Fields. A summary of the seminar presentations and copies of the speakers’ slides can be found below:

  • for a summary of the speakers' presentations click here.

  • to see Professor Lawrie Challis's slides, click here.

  • to see Dr John Tattersall's slides, click here (1.41MB).

  • to see Sarah Smith's slides, click here (2.43MB).

  • to see Dr Philip Chadwick's slides, click here (3.93MB).

2006

September 2006 Imperial College Seminar

At this seminar the Imperial College Long Term Health Monitoring study team presented the objectives and methodology of their study. A summary of the presentations may be found here.

2004

November 2004 TIG at TETRA World Congress in Vienna

TIG gave a presentation at the 2004 TETRA World Congress describing the UK experience in introducing TETRA systems. An annotated copy of the slides used in that presentation may be viewed here.

2001

December 2001 TETRA World Congress in Nice

Brenda McAll, General Secretary of TIG, gave a presentation on risk communication to the TETRA World Congress, based on the public concerns related to the early days of the introduction of the TETRA-based Airwave system and commenting on what the industry had done well and less well and what had been learned. A copy of the slides can be viewed here and a summary of the presentation can be seen here.

 

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