noise control News
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OPSIS Attends Air Quality & Noise Control
OPSIS attends Air Quality & Noise Control. Together with our distributor AES we are in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Visit us to discuss air quality monitoring. Get more information about the exhibition here. ...
By OPSIS AB
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IOA`s Acoustics Diploma receives highest percentage of merits ever!
The Institute of Acoustics (IOA) has recorded the highest ever percentage of merits ever obtained for its Postgraduate Diploma in Acoustics and Noise Control. At the end of the 2007/8 Diploma year, nearly 40% of the 170 students on the General Principles of Acoustics (GPA) Module obtained a merit. Distance Learning students did particularly well over the three Centres in Bristol, Edinburgh and ...
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Air Quality & Noise Control Conference
Air pollution is the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Unprecedented infrastructure activities, industrialization and heavy traffic are the main threats which increase the risk of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Noise-monitoring stations have been installed across the UAE to control the sound level in the cities. Restrictions were imposed on working hours and the ...
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Vibration control Products Vibro Hellenic Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST)
Our company has carried out the selection and successful supply of the Vibration control products in MEP Equipment of the Hellenic Museum of Contemporary Art. The Hellenic Museum of Contemporary Art is one of the most prestigious projects of the recent years. It has been an international standards project with a lot of attention to all levels for this reason the optimum vibration reduction method ...
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Pulsar Instruments adds new noise course
New noise awareness course added We are delighted to announce that an additional Noise Awareness training course has been added to the 2015 schedule. The 'Pulsar Noise Awareness competency course’ is intended to meet the needs of those new to workplace noise measurements and will help attendees learn about basic acoustic theory and understand the measurement process. Noise-induced hearing ...
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The 2nd Annual Air Quality & Noise Control GCC successfully launched
Advanced Conferences & Meetings (ACM) proudly launched the 2nd Annual Air Quality & Noise Control GCC today at Eastern Mangroves Abu Dhabi, UAE. This event constitutes a platform for the regulators, industry stakeholders, air monitoring and noise control equipment and solution providers. The 2nd Annual Air Quality & Noise Control GCC brought together environmental experts from ...
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HSE noise expert discussing solutions
Casella CEL is staging a one-day event on workplace noise and regulatory compliance aimed at health and safety professionals from the entertainment business and general industry. Called the Workplace and Entertainment Noise Seminar, the event will be addressed by the HSE Laboratory physicist who did much of the research upon which Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 are based. Liz Brueck, ...
By Casella
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Casella expands CEL-200 range
Casella hasn’t rested on its laurels since it launched the CEL-200 series of sound level meters last year to help H&S professionals comply with the Control of Noise at Work Regulations (2005). The introduction of the CEL-242 and CEL-246 brings new capability to the range, which now stands at four instruments. The new models can store time history onto an onboard memory capable of logging ...
By Casella
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Quiet fan technology cuts costs and noise at oil refinery
Innovative and award winning noise control technology developed by the Industrial Noise and Vibration Centre (INVC) has been used to reduce the drone from industrial fans at an oil refinery in the USA at 20% of the cost of conventional silencers (a saving estimated to be around $1 million) – and with reduced running costs. INVC’s quiet fan technology – which employs innovative ...
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Creating a quiet environment
Do you know someone who is doing something to create a healthy soundscape in your working environment, neighbourhood or municipality—implementing innovative solutions to noise problems or creating quiet green areas where the sounds of birds and bees can be enjoyed? If so, encourage them to apply for the European Soundscape Award 2012 which is open for submission from 25 April, the ...
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Wölfel at Internoise 2017 In Hong Kong To Release New Immi Version With Spectacular New Functionalities
INTER-NOISE 2017, the 46th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, will be held in Hong Kong, China, between 27 and 30 August 2017. The Congress is organised by the Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in conjunction with NVH Branch, Society of Automotive Engineering China and the Acoustical Society of China. We are proud to ...
By Wölfel Group
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Noise Mapping and Planning For Non-Acousticians
New software is available for those who may not have in-depth knowledge of acoustics but want accurate results of a noise calculation in the smallest amount of time, with the maximum amount of professionalism. SoundPLANessential was conceived with this in mind. SoundPLANessential is a compact version of SoundPLAN, known for its power, fast data processing and graphics. It is said ...
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Facing the challenges of the new Control of Noise at Work Regulations
The introduction of the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005, which came into force on the 6th April 2006, introduce to employers new limits in the level of noise exposure to which employees can be exposed and actions that should be taken at these different action levels. One of the most sigificant additions in the new Regulations is the introduction of the Exposure Limits Values of and ...
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Pulsar Instruments – interactive brochure for noise measurement products launched
Pulsar has developed a new online interactive brochure to showcase its world class sound level meters and noise dosimeters designed to meet occupational noise control standards. As well as educating and offering advice to help safety professionals protect their employees from noise-induced hearing loss, the brochure includes benefits and applications most suitable for each meter - all written in ...
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First for Noise at Work measurement products
Make noise at work your priority The function of Health and Safety management is challenging and covers a number of areas which demand attention. As professionals we are constantly reminded that, in this area of work, noise levels measurement is only one of the many tasks that need to be implemented to achieve compliance in the workplace. However, it is important to make noise at work ...
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Better noise mapping with dynamic search method
Braunstein + Berndt GmbH announce the release of their newly developed Dynamic Search calculation method. Dynamic Search estimates the contribution for each receiver and ranks the influence of all sources. Only the sources important to the final result of a receiver are calculated; the rest are estimated. By dynamically selecting the sources that need to be calculated versus estimated, more data ...
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Keep it down! controlling noise in the workplace with Pulsar
According to the HSE, over one million employees in Great Britain are exposed to levels of noise which put their hearing at risk. Noise induced hearing loss is one of the most prevalent, but often ignored, risks in the workplace and employees must, by law, be protected. Once noise-induced hearing loss has taken place, it is irreversible. Clearly prevention is the most sensible option here as 1 ...
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New noise at work course a great success
Leading global specialist in industrial hygiene and occupational health monitoring equipment, Casella CEL (www.casellameasurement.com; 01234 844100), has held a new one-day course offering an introduction-come-refresher on workplace noise in accordance with the UK ‘Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005’. Designed to help those whose role requires them to protect employees from ...
By Casella
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01DB s mapping 12 Petrobras Oil Refineries
PETROBRAS is the national oil company in Brazil. Concerned about the working conditions of its employees, PETROBRAS wishes to identify, assess and control noise pressure levels of its refineries. With 12 exploitation sites and about 3,500 noise sources to analyze, this project is a huge one. 01dB provided a complete noise mapping of each production site with the identification of the main noise ...
By ACOEM GROUP
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Trumped up Noise Lawsuit Hits the Headlines
Even having hundreds of millions at your disposal can’t protect you from noise nuisance it would seem. Property billionaire Donald Trump has filed a $100m dollar lawsuit over flight patterns at Palm Beach International Airport that he complains send airplanes over his exclusive Mar-A-Lago Club, damaging the club and causing a noise nuisance. Mar-A-Lago is a private club with 450 members ...
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