Noise health effects

Section 8 - Consent Levels and Health, Safety and Environmental Protection Criteria. This section lists the maximum levels for emissions to the environment, chemical concentrations in the working environment, noise, health effects and personal risk. These may be imposed by statute or the result of Company policies. These figures will have a direct effect on the design of various items of plant equipment. 

Reduce noise emissions resulting from substantial use of the electric motor at idling and low speeds, leading to roadway noise reduction in comparison to conventional gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicles, resulting in beneficial noise health effects. 

Whilst the causative agent(s) have not been established it is thought to be multifunctional and possibilities include physical factors (humidity, temperature, lighting), static electricity, electromagnetic radiation, air ion concentrations, fungi, noise, psychological stress, and chemicals. Chemicals which are not those involved in the normal work processes can become trapped within the building, albeit at concentrations below those known to cause ill-health effects, if ... 

The effects of transport on economy, people and on the environment are manifold. They include the consequences of transport accidents and fatalities, nuisance and health effects caused by steady noise exposure, air emissions and the exhaust and resuspension of particles, climate impacts by the emission of greenhouse gases, soil and water contamination, and the deterioration of natural habitats. Moreover, the financial burden of infrastructure provision and the additional travel and production costs caused by congestion should be mentioned but these items are mainly borne by transport users themselves and thus are only partly imposed on society as a whole. Not all of these effects are equally relevant for all means of transport. While accidents constitute the major problem of car travel, the railways definitely face a noise problem and air transport contributes most to the emission of climate gases. 

Physical agents in the environment that may cause illness include solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation, ionizing radiation (produced by radioactive materials and X-rays), extreme temperatures, noise, vibrations, and particulates. The most famous particulates inducing adverse health effects include asbestos and silica dust. Other physical agents, such as electric or magnetic fields and microwaves, may also cause adverse health effects, but there is of yet not enough solid evidence to support or refute this hypothesis. 

Our method has used the relationship between the added value of concentration of the damage factors and the disease rate of health damage that is terminal in the epidemiological however, there are other damage factors (such as the vibration, noise and temperature factors) that are harmful to people because they transmit energy. Consequently, our concentration value cannot be used to represent the amount of freed energy. Therefore, more research needs to be done before this method can be used to measure the health effects of other occupations. 

McJuiy, M., 2001, Acoustic Noise And Magnetic Resonance Procedures, in Magnetic Resonance Procedures Health Effects and Stffety, F. G. Shellock (ed.), CRC Press, New York, pp. 115-138. 

Health Hazard Control recognizing, evaluating, and controlling hazards that can create undesirable health effects, including noise, chemical exposures, radiation, or biological hazards. 

Henderson D, Hu B, McFadden S, Zheng X, Ding D (2000) The role of glutathione in carboplatin ototoxicity in the chinchilla. Noise Health 3(9) 1-10 Hill GW, Merest D, Parham K (2008) Cisplatin-induced ototoxicity effect of intratympanic dexamethasone injections. Otol Neurotol 29(7) 1005-1011. doi 10.1097/MAO. 

Is there an ongoing preventive health program to educate employees in safe levek of noise, exposures effects of noise on their health and the use of personal protection ... 

Ventilation noise and the annoyance effects which may result have been a recurring question in recent years for researchers, occupational health services, and various aurhorities. In spite of this, there are still major shortcomings in our knowledge about the links between human effects and exposure to ventilation noise. Current regulations and recommendations are thus based on uncertain principles in certain respects. 

A generic problem in all studies of the effects of chemical exposures on health is the need to differentiate real" effects from random background noise." Statistical variance in an experiment can result in a safe substance s being declared hazardous. And vice versa. 

It has been known for many years that the human brain is dependent for its norman functioning on a regular input of sensory stimuli. Sensory deprivation leads to hallucinations and finally to mental breakdown. The use of these sensory deprivation techniques by British forces in Northern Ireland(Ref 7) was the subject of an official investigation (Ref 4). This commission concluded that physical torture had not been used. But a commission set up by Amnesty International concluded that the technique clearly amounted to brutality and was dangerous both to the immediate mental health of the individual subjected to this treatment and to the long-term health of some subjects (Ref S) See also under Sound as a Weapon in Vol 9 Refs 1)G.C. Mohr etal, Effects of Low Frequency and Infiasonic Noise on Men , Aero-spaceMedicine 36 (1965), 817-824 2) R. 

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