Do I have a Noise Problem?

Posted on March 17, 2013

• the noise is intrusive e.g. a busy street, a vacuum cleaner or a crowded restaurant, or worse than intrusive, for most of the working day;
• your employees have to raise their voices to have a normal conversation when about 2 metres apart for at least part of the day;
• your employees use noisy powered tools or machinery for more than half an hour a day;
• your sector is one known to have noisy tasks, e.g. construction, demolition or road repair, woodworking, plastics processing, engineering, textile manufacture, general fabrication, forging or  stamping, paper or board making, canning or bottling, foundries, waste and recycling;
• there are noises due to impacts (such as hammering, drop forging, pneumatic impact tools etc), explosive sources such as cartridge-operated tools or detonators, or guns.