Noise Control - Christopher N. Penn

Noise Control

The Law and Its Enforcement
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
1995 | 2nd Revised edition
Shaw & Sons Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7219-0831-1 (ISBN)
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Recent years have seen a growth in environmental and occupational noise. This book provides a guide to the law relating to noise, and offers advice to those responsible for controlling or monitoring noise. It discusses the sources of noise problems; solutions for control; and noise prevention.
Since publication of the first edition of this book in 1979, environmental and occupational noise have caused increasing concern; a 1993 survey revealed that one in three people claimed that environmental noise spoiled their home life to some extent. Neighbour noise complaints have risen by 320% in ten years and those about industrial and commercial noise by 230%. In addition, 80% of claims to the DSS in respect of industrial injury allege occupational hearing damage. This book provides a reliable and comprehensive guide to the law relating to noise and provides advice for all those who have a responsibility to controlling or monitoring noise. The various sources of noise problems are considered in detail together with their consequences and advice for their control; noise prevention is also discussed in detail and the importance of considering its effects at the planning stage of developments is stressed. This book should become a major source of reference for Environmental Health Officers, planners, legal practitioners, industrial employers, trade unions, the construction industry, etc.

Part 1 Noise control: what is noise?; what is sound?; effects of noise; noise measurement; noise reduction; what is vibration?. Part 2 Noise nuisance: what comprises a nuisance?; public nuisance; private nuisance; statutory noise nuisance; investigation of complaints; individual's right to take proceedings under the 1990 Act; mediation in noise disputes. Part 3 Noise in public places: nuisances under law; byelaws; licensed premises; police powers; noise in streets; recreation noise; recreational hearing hazards. Part 4 Noise abatement zones: legal powers; noise measurement; noise reduction notices; new developments; appeals under sections 64-67; suspension of notices. Part 5 Construction site noise: statutory control; practical implications of site noise control; noise from plant or machinery; land compensation act 1973; control by local acts. Part 6 Road traffic noise: the structure of traffic noise; effects of traffic noise; traffic noise control; construction and use of motor vehicles; traffic management and planning for noise control; compensation and noise insulation; insulation against road traffic noise. Part 7 Aircraft noise: source of aircraft noise; effects of aircraft noise on health; control of aircraft noise; airport management; aircraft noise certification; noise insulation grants; aircraft noise index; land use planning; helicopter noise; microlight aircraft. Part 8 Planning and development: development plans; applications, planning permission, consent conditions; planning conditions; enforcement of planning control; planning appeals; noise from public works; building design as a means of control. Part 9 Occupational noise exposure: relationship between noise exposure and hearing loss; occupational deafness - common law; statutory right to benefit as a result of hearing loss; statutory duty; assessing the existence of an occupational noise problem; hearing conservation; safety representatives/safety committees; reporting of work related hearing injury; managing health and safety at work; obligations of designers, etc.

Zusatzinfo illustrations, bibliography, index
Verlagsort Crayford
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht
ISBN-10 0-7219-0831-4 / 0721908314
ISBN-13 978-0-7219-0831-1 / 9780721908311
Zustand Neuware
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