<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Increasingly, the Slovakian and European occupational health and safety legislation requires designers, manufacturers and suppliers of industrial plants and equipment to minimise hazards, such as excessive noise associated with their products, and to provide information about potential hazards. Even so, noise is still often overlooked with the result that the working environment is needlessly noisy. The purpose of this paper is to:- provide guidelines for the preparation of noise specifications;- show how to calculate the maximum acceptable noise level for new equipment;- show how to interpret noise information provided by suppliers.</abstract>

Increasingly, the Slovakian and European occupational health and safety legislation requires designers, manufacturers and suppliers of industrial plants and equipment to minimise hazards, such as excessive noise associated with their products, and to provide information about potential hazards. Even so, noise is still often overlooked with the result that the working environment is needlessly noisy. The purpose of this paper is to:- provide guidelines for the preparation of noise specifications;- show how to calculate the maximum acceptable noise level for new equipment;- show how to interpret noise information provided by suppliers.

Acoustical Specification of New Equipment with Respect to Noise Policy

Institute of Safety and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Botanická 49, SK-917 24 Trnava, Slovak Republic

Department of Environmental Studies and Information Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University in Košice, Park Komenského č.5, SK-041 87 Košice, Slovak Republic

Research Papers Faculty of Materials Science and Technology Slovak University of Technology

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Increasingly, the Slovakian and European occupational health and safety legislation requires designers, manufacturers and suppliers of industrial plants and...

Acoustical Specification of New Equipment with Respect to Noise Policy

Published Online: Sep 21, 2011

Page range: 73 - 82

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10186-010-0042-y

Keywords
noise policy, noise manager, acceptable noise level, noise information

This content is open access.

Acoustical Specification of New Equipment with Respect to Noise Policy

Published Online: Sep 21, 2011

Page range: 73 - 82

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10186-010-0042-y

Keywordsnoise policy, noise manager, acceptable noise level, noise information

This content is open access.

Keywords
noise policy, noise manager, acceptable noise level, noise information