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Federal Communications | readily available today. Whether you |
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Commission (FCC) RF Safety | choose an installed mounted device | ||
Program | for your wireless phone or a | ||
(http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/cellular.html) | speaker phone accessory, take | ||
International Commission on | advantage of these devices if | ||
available to you. | |||
Nonlonizing Radiation Protection | |||
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(http://www.icnirp.de) | 3.Make sure you place your wireless | ||
World Health Organization (WHO) | phone within easy reach and where | ||
you can reach it without removing | |||
International EMF Project | |||
your eyes from the road. If you get | |||
(http://www.who.int/emf) | |||
an incoming call at an inconvenient | |||
Health Protection Agency | |||
time, if possible, let your voicemail | |||
(http://www.hpa.org.uk/) | answer it for you. | ||
10 Driver Safety Tips | 4.Suspend conversations during | ||
hazardous driving conditions or | |||
Your wireless phone gives you the | situations. Let the person you are | ||
speaking with know you are driving; | |||
powerful ability to communicate by | |||
if necessary, suspend the call in | |||
voice almost anywhere, anytime. An | |||
heavy traffic or hazardous weather | |||
important responsibility accompanies | |||
conditions. Rain, sleet, snow, and | |||
the benefits of wireless phones, one | |||
ice can be hazardous, but so is | |||
that every user must uphold. | |||
heavy traffic. As a driver, your first | |||
When operating a car, driving is your | |||
responsibility is to pay attention to | |||
first responsibility. When using your | the road. | ||
wireless phone behind the wheel of a | 5.Don’t take notes or look up phone | ||
car, practice good common sense | |||
numbers while driving. If you are | |||
and remember the following tips: | |||
reading an address book or | |||
1. Get to know your wireless phone | |||
business card, or writing a | |||
and its features such as speed dial | list while driving a car, you are not | ||
and redial. Carefully read your | watching where you are going. It is | ||
instruction manual and learn to take | common sense. Do not get caught | ||
advantage of valuable features | in a dangerous situation because | ||
most phones offer, including | you are reading or writing and not | ||
automatic redial and memory. Also, | paying attention to the road or | ||
work to memorize the phone | nearby vehicles. | ||
keypad so you can use the speed | 6.Dial sensibly and assess the traffic; | ||
dial function without taking your | |||
if possible, place calls when you are | |||
attention off the road. | |||
not moving or before pulling into | |||
2.When available, use a | |||
traffic. Try to plan your calls before | |||
device. A number of | you begin your trip or attempt to | ||
wireless phone accessories are | coincide your calls with times you |