Rating of impulse noise, in particular shooting noise, with regard to annoyance

Annoyance responses to military shooting noise in Switzerland

Occupational exposure to impulse noise associated with shooting.

Shooting training is associated with exposure to a considerable amount of unique noise. We wanted to evaluate noise exposure during such training. Our observations especially apply to professional sport shooters, but they are also valid for shooting coaches/instructors. We collected acoustic signals in 10-, 25- and 50-m as well as open-air shooting ranges. The recorded material was analysed wit...

Effects of noise annoyance on mental distress

Introduction: Noise is one of the most harmful physical factors in the workplace that can cause annoyance. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of annoyance caused by occupational noise on employee’s mental distress. Materials and Methods: This analytical-descriptive study was performed on 325 employees of the parts manufacturing industry in seven groups and the noise ...

noise annoyance due to construction worksites

background: noise pollution can contribute to adverse health effects in humans. noise annoyance and related problems, caused by noise emission during the progress of building construction, have become increasingly important. these problems can influence the exposed workers, as well as vicinity residents. the goal of the present study was to assess the noise annoyance due to noise from construct...

Rating of Hearing Protector Performance for Impulse Noise

Concern has often been expressed that the performance of hearing protectors in steady noise may not apply to their performance in impulse noise. Our current.studies, as well as other studies, support the fact that there is a large difference in performance. In all cases, the performance of a protector is much better for impulse noise than for continuous noise. For example, we are obtaining at l...