noise awareness Articles
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Another Successful Noise Awareness Course Delivered
We’ve delivered another successful Noise Awareness Course! Pulsar Instruments has successfully delivered its March One Day Noise Awareness Course to Health and Safety professionals in York. The course, which took place on 7 March 2018, covered everything from ‘how our hearing works’ to giving practical bespoke advice to individual delegates on measuring and managing noise in ...
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Acoustic Glossary - a guide to noise measurement terms
Acoustic Glossary – A Guide to Common Noise Measurement Terms Are you bamboozled by Bels, confused by Calibration, or left-wanting by Weightings? Let our industry guide to acoustic terms and definitions help you. We have compiled a guide to some of the most common noise measurement terms to help you understand how and why we measure noise. In our guide, we’ve listed the acoustic ...
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Noise awareness training that`s out of this world!
Join us at our 30th One Day Noise Awareness Training Course on 13 June 2018 at the National Space Centre, Leicester for training we think is out of this world! Our one day Noise Training Course offers comprehensive training on how and why to measure noise, what to measure and how often you need to measure it. The course covers everything from basic noise theory through to how to use sound ...
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Noise Awareness and Noise Management training
Employers have a legal responsibility to ensure the health and safety of their workers whilst at work. Business owners, managers and team leaders have a clear duty placed on them to implement and maintain the relevant procedures. As such, being able to show attendance to some noise awareness and noise management training would be advantageous. Pulsar Instruments have put together a day course ...
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Noise awareness courses for 2018
Get Noise At Work Aware Pulsar’s noise at work awareness training course is widely recognised by employers as a must have for anyone with health and safety responsibilities to ‘get noise at work aware’. The one day course is delivered by top industry experts and aims to improve (or refresh) your knowledge of the current legislation, noise risks, noise theory, risk ...
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Noise Awareness Course in York
Pulsar have released the final date of their Noise Awareness Course programme for 2017 to be held in September. The popular 1 day face-to-face course is designed to give the person responsible for health and safety compliance at work an insight into the harmful effects of noise, acoustic terminology and principles, statutory duties and Legislation, risk assessment/noise survey techniques, and how ...
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International Noise Awareness Day 2016
Today is the 21st annual International Noise Awareness Day. On 27th April 2016, people, organisations, and governments around the world will commemorate the 21st Annual International Noise Awareness Day. The Center for Hearing and Communication (CHC) founded this yearly event back in 1996 to raise awareness of noise where people work, live, and play and encourage them to take action against ...
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International Noise Awareness Day 2018
You have to make some noise to end it Pulsar Instruments Plc (25 April 2018) – On International Noise Awareness Day 2018 we’re making some noise about ‘Noise at Work’. “It is time to address the threat that noise poses to our hearing and to our health” says Simon Rehill, General Manager of Pulsar Instruments. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that ...
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Noise Awareness Training course - 5 reasons to attend
5 Reasons to attend our Noise Awareness Training Course Occupational noise, or noise at work, is one of the biggest causes of hearing loss and tinnitus in workers today. There is no cure for this “noise induced hearing loss” but it is preventable by making sure that employers address workplace noise hazards and supply appropriate protection when needed. Our One Day Noise Awareness ...
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Don’t Turn a Deaf Ear to a Noisy Working Environment
Whether you work in manufacturing, engineering, construction, or in an office environment, the incessant noises of machinery or even noisy work colleagues can have an effect on your wellbeing after a while. But the problems associated with noise run much, much deeper than this. It can lead to severe and permanent loss of hearing, as well as a significant rise in blood pressure and stress. And ...
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Noise: regulations, risks and controls
Course dates 2017 – Noise: regulations, risks and controls A solid understanding of basic noise theory, regulations, risk assessment and controls and how to measure noise in a work environment are key to a successful noise control strategy. Improve yours with a Pulsar Noise Awareness course in 2017. Pulsar have just released 3 new dates for their one day noise at work awareness courses ...
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British-Made Noise Measurement Products Are Best
Demand for British-made products has never been so high If you are based in the UK and looking for new noise measurement equipment to carry out your noise assessments, it makes sense to start looking for a device manufactured in this country. Benefits of British-Made Noise Measurement Products There are, in fact, many financial benefits for opting for a British-made product. Noise measurement ...
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Reading borough council - Combating noise nuisance - case study
The Issue Commercial and domestic noise nuisance complaints. The Solution Anyone browsing noise nuisance in Reading will very quickly come across these questions on the Council’s website: Are you being driven mad by persistent loud music from a neighbour? Is someone carrying out noisy DIY work late at night or early in the morning? Is there a noisy pub or shop nearby? Are barking dogs ...
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Tinnitus Awareness Week 2016
Tinnitus Awareness week is an annual event organised by the charity The British Tinnitus Association to raise the awareness of the condition. This year will be the 10th Anniversary of Tinnitus Awareness Week and will focus on the theme of Prevention which, as a company that promotes noise control and noise monitoring in the workplace, we are delighted to support. What is Tinnitus? You may be ...
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Noise at Work Regulations -10 years in 10 facts
April 2016 sees the 10th Anniversary of the Control of Noise at Work Regulations (2005) which came into force in April 2006. As far as safety regulations go, the Control of Noise at Work Regulations may be one of the less visible in a heavy portfolio of Health and Safety responsibilities. However, huge progress has been made in the last ten years to raise the awareness of industrial deafness or ...
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Pulsar`s 2018 Noise Training Programme for Safety Managers
Pulsar launches a new training programme to help safety managers gain a better understanding of noise risks, controls, legislation and best management practices. Does your organisation use hand-held power tools or noisy machinery? If you do then you need to have a good awareness of issues raised by noise in the workplace. This brand new noise training programme for 2018 has been designed to be ...
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Working with Reading borough council to Combat noise nuisance - Case study
Like all Local Authorities, Reading Borough Council has a statutory duty to look into any complaints of noise nuisance. With a population of around 155,700, it is one of the smaller boroughs in England but the range of complaints that come into its Environmental Protection and Nuisance Team are pretty varied; from music loving neighbours, crowing cockerels, howling hounds, even noisy budgerigars. ...
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Noise Measurement Training Course Dates for 2019
Take Control of Noise Find the answers you need about workplace noise measurement and how to stay HSE compliant from noise at work measurement specialists Pulsar Instruments when you attend a Noise Measurement Training Course in 2019 Noise regulations, and a basic understanding of noise theory and noise control is something that employers who are responsible for staff operating in noisy areas ...
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Save on training courses before the end of January!
Our training courses aren’t just for those new colleagues that may need bringing up-to-speed with everything noise-related; they also provide a useful refresher for you and your current team. So, whether it’s product training or noise at work awareness, we offer a range of programmes and online resources to help you and your team get the most out of your noise measurement equipment. ...
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Manage the rise in deafness claims with Pulsar Instruments
The recent reports in the press about insurance groups complaining of a sharp rise in claims from employees seeking compensation for hearing problems have highlighted the real risks of noise induced hearing loss and the importance of protecting employees in the workplace. Although employees are protected by Law, noise induced hearing loss is often ignored. And once hearing loss has occurred, it ...
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