Industrial Noise and Vibration Centre articles

The availability of this new test will have a dramatic effect on the management of hearing loss prevention programmes…

New technology has become available that provides companies with data that they can use to check the real world performance of their hearing conservation programmes very quickly and very easily. It is a development of otoacoustic emission (OAE) screening technology that, unlike conventional audiometry, can be used to

If you play white noise to a group of people and tell them that the song “White Christmas” is hidden in the sound, about 30% of them will be convinced that they can hear it. The human mind is always looking for patterns – even when they aren’t there. This propensity explains a significant proportion of complaints where noise levels are actually very low (they can be close to, or below, the threshold of hearing at low frequencies) or the complainant has mild tinnitus. T

… as long as the “noise” is music. Thus spake Richard Littlejohn of the Daily Mail earlier this year – he’s a journalist, for some value of “journalist”. “Blessed is the man who, being ignorant, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact” (with apologies to George Eliot). This journalistic licence is addictive, I feel better already….

Quoting RJ: “As the Mail [made up] reported earlier this w