Noise And Vibration Articles & Analysis
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What most people don’t realize is that vibration can increase the chance for some of these injuries. For this reason it is important to avoid (as much as possible) risk factors like jumping, twisting, awkward postures and using high force immediately after operating vibrating equipment. Manufacturers are now making lower vibration equipment ...
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, ...
Some major contributors to stress are: Unpleasant working conditions due to noise, vibration, and heat/cold Inadequate leisure facilities to occupy free time/for non-smokers Sharing living and sleeping accommodations/lack of privacy Concern about job-related diseases and disorders Long, back-to-back shifts No quiet room to unwind when finishing a shift ...
The implementation of the hearing in noise test (HINT) was carried out using an NVH driving simulator in order to evaluate the speech intelligibility in a car between driver and passenger for a variety of driving speeds and the configurations of the talker and of the listener. ...
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 ...
… 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 ...