Even with “clean” technology and improved, modern, workplace safety practices, the risks can be real. A 2006 US study using the firm’s own ‘Corporate Mortality File’, found staff employed at IBM computer factories had high rates of a range of cancers linked to exposures to chemicals and electromagnetic fields. Studies have found similar problems in computer factories in other countries. Office jobs too can have their risks. After Australian media union MEAA raised concerns about apparently high breast cancer risks in the broadcaster’s Brisbane studios, the findings were confirmed in a management- commissioned study. The studio was shut down. Other.
