Hallo, Hallo!!! Is that my cell or is it yours?

Hi DaveF,

We do not allow people to have their cell / mobile phones if they are working or entering our Production / Manufacturing Facilities due to the signal interruptions that our test systems are receiving. Notice that when your phone rings your PC monitor starts flickering or giving you horizontal lines. For our production employees, ther are not allowed to bring with them or use mobile phones while working. If they have an emergency call from their families, friends etc. they are welcome to receive calls and talk to them via the main company trunk line (phone system) thru the receptionists. If they (production employees)need to make a call they need to inform the person in-charge of their department and it must be an important call and not a friendly hi-how are u-chita-chat.

regards,

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Hi

Usually a no no in Production areas. or any areas involving physical hazards.

If you brought in a trained Safety Professional they would be able to give all the distraction reasons that could lead to accident exposures.

One highly motivated place I worked, strapped a local pager to all their engineers and technicians to buzz their body and then they would see they had a phone number to call back. You had to call a special internal number just for pagers. Even that was annoying since they could then be distracted when their head was in a machine. This facility was big and the engineers roamed far and wide SO I guess they found the best solution YET mostly for business reasons and not for emergencies.

Phone calls to any employee (pro or not) for emergencies, and Life Altering situations ARE NOT A GOOD IDEA. Quite often the human response mechanism gets Flakeeeyyy and they will do strange things (Blood Pressure goes up instantly). A Human with a little more patience is better to bring the message and help the other human be less flakeeyy.

Yet ask a Pro, and get some reports.

Now David F, I get a lot of magazines and you might just see if Occupational Hazards http://www.occupationalhazards.com has any articles.

Good Luck if you have to change a culture.

YiEng DDave

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No cell phones on the floor under penalty of suspension or worse. They are allowed emergency phone calls as many of the women in production have kids in day-care or school. But the dept. supervisor is the one answering the phone and decides to take a message or to call the employee to the phone.

Fire drill: during our last drill, nobody made a move until I got up from my desk and shouted "everybody OUT!" Makes me wonder what would happen if I'm on vacation...

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Hi Dave F As usual an interesting issue. Employees working in hazardous environments and critical tasks were the safety of the personnel and the jobs are at risk; they should not be allowed to use any communication or entertainment media. Such means can draw the attention and the concentration required to accomplish the Job. In emergency cases Employees can be reached through the company standard line and by the authorization of the supervisor. The issue is almost discussed under another heading � Allowing employees to carry Walkman and head set� posted by Mr. Dave F. Most of the answers do fit.

Good Luck Jkhaiar

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DAVE- The way we got around it was simple- Our Mole for profiling is RF and the cell phones would interupt the data transfer so we nixed all cell use. Also, our BTU oven was in constant RF communication with our KIC and so cells were band from the floor.

hopefully you have a RF mole. Cal

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