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How do you identify noise problems in the workplace?
The first step is to determine whether or not noise is a potential problem in your workplace. A walk-through survey helps in making this decision. The indicators of potentially hazardous noise level include:
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- Noise is louder than the busy city traffic.
- People have to raise their voice to talk to someone at one meter (3 feet) away.
- At the end of the work shift, people have to increase the volume of their radio or TV to a level too loud for others.
- After working for a few years at that workplace, employees find it difficult to communicate in a crowd or party situation where there are other sounds or many voices.
Noise measurement data from studies in similar situations are very helpful in assessing the potential noise problem.