Noise and Vibration Technical Notes
The following are newsletters, technical notes and presentation material covering a range of industry news, technical topics, noise and vibration innovations and best practice. Simply click on the links to display the PDF file in a new window. Additional technical notes are also available on some topics - contact us for more details if you cannot find what you need here.
 Technical Articles in the Trade Press - noise and hand-arm vibration
 INVC Best Practice Newsletters
 Technical Notes - noise and vibration measurement, management and control
 Presentations
The "Definitive Articles" on Noise and Hand-Arm Vibration
Hearing Protection: new research shows that many get no protection whatsoever.. Occupational Safety & Health - 11/09
40% of the workers expected to use hearing protection get negligible or zero protection. The implications of these findings published in a recent HSE report are far reaching. The common assumption that PPE is a reliable “solution” to hearing damage risk problems is simply untrue, leaving many personnel still at risk and many companies open to claims.... [ 530kb]
Hand-Arm Vibration Assessment
Light Touch: HAV Assessment Best Practice - Health and Safety at Work Magazine - 10/09
A substantial proportion of the time and resources designated by industry
for hand-arm vibration risk management programmes is not well spent despite the best of intentions. The
subject still appears to offer a minefield of opportunities for risk management mistakes based on
misinformation and myth.
This article offers a pragmatic guide to best - and cost effective - practice in HAV risk assessment. [ 2000kb]
Noise Assessment, Noise Control and Noise Purchasing Specifications: HSW
The following is a series of articles on occupational noise commissioned by and published in the Health and Safety at Work magazine during 2009. HSW website.
Think Outside the Box: Noise Control Best Practice - Health and Safety at Work Magazine - 06/09
Noise control is a mandatory requirement under the regulations - but it needn’t necessarily cost much - or even cost anything at all. This article shows that if you approach noise control in the right way, you can not only reduce the typical assumed costs associated with noise control by up to 80%, but you can even reduce your operating costs. [ 172kb]
Let the Quiet One In: Noise Buying Standard Specification - Health and Safety at Work Magazine - 07/09
Implementing and policing a noise purchasing policy for new plant is a very cost effective element in any noise risk management programme. This article summarises the main factors involved in ensuring that buy quiet policies are both practical and effective with illustrates of the solutions to some of the common problems that can be encountered.
[ 181kb]
Sound Investment: Noise Assessment Best Practice - Health and Safety at Work Magazine
- 09/09
Currently, industry wastes a fortune on assessments that are little more than unnecessary annual or bi-annual “check-box” exercises. Moreover, the majority of these assessments are inadequate as they do not meet the minimum regulatory requirements. This article provides practical guidance on best practice to minimise the resources spent on assessment whilst, at the same time, ensuring that they are both effective and of high quality. [ 211kb]
INVC Best Practice Newsletters
 These pdfs include features on noise reduction, vibration reduction, noise and vibration training, INVC services, case studies (with sound) and full lists of our free technical notes.
2009 award winning noise control technology newsletter [ 490kb]
Award winning fan noise control project saves £1 million; free noise control evaluation by email; environmental noise reduction saves 80% of cost; hand-arm vibration database; yoghurt based burner noise control; combined HAV and noise assessments; Shard of Glass explosive demolition noise and vibration; IOSH entertainment noise competency training; environment agency noise workshops; pump motor vibration damping using dynamic vibration absorbers...
2008 environmental noise and vibration newsletter [ 370kb]
Remote control of noise; calibrated noise recordings from SLMs; entertainment noise competency training; the most successful fan noise control project in history; noise control best practicable means evaluation; construction / demolition noise and vibration control; Mata Hari complainant; noise training and innovation catalogues..
2007 self-financing noise control newsletter [672kb]
Self-Financing Noise Control; Noise Management Action programme Audit; HAV risk reduction via maintenance (and reduced maintenance costs); HAV measurement errors; Noise and HAV training updates; stack and fan noise reduction; monitoring noise complaints; entertainment noise assessment; environmental noise reduction - by increasing noise levels....
2006 noise control audit and HAV database newsletter [680kb]
Control of Noise at Work Regulations; Noise Control Audit; Noise Management Audit; vibration reduction on mowers; HAV database new version; HAV and hire company traffic lights; piling vibration; noise production testing; acoustic shock mythology; frequency analyser; EEF / HSE road shows; Noise Management Briefings....
2004 noise assessment and risk management newsletter [396kb]
Noise audit; HAV audit; Top 10 noise control techniques; fan noise reduction at source; production noise testing; HAV database; HAV Test tool maintenance; HAV Management Manual; Noise and Vibration analysis and recording; chiller noise reduction; compressor noise control....
Technical Notes - Noise and Vibration Measurement, Management and Control
Self-Financing Noise Control: profit from noise control technology [608kb]
Noise control techniques and innovations that actually increase productivity, making the regulatory requirements a profitable exercise. Engineering modifications that can be justified on the grounds of increased efficiency and productivity alone.
Quiet Fan Technology: fan noise reduction at source - without silencers [461kb]
Unique fan silencing technology - without silencers, enclosures or lagging; no effect on fan performance, no maintenance over the lifetime of the fan, easily retro-fitted and a fraction of the cost of conventional techniques.
Product Noise and Vibration Control: designing quiet product case studies [363kb]
Developing inherently quiet products using engineering techniques to minimise costs. Gain a competitive advantage by meeting customer demand for low noise machines at a fraction of the cost of conventional noise control measures.
Noise Management Audit: repeat measurements - or best practice Action to reduce costs? [380kb]
Instead of yet another noise assessment telling you what you already know - that you have a noise problem - carry out a Noise Management Audit instead. It generates a detailed Action Plan to update procedures as necessary to reflect current best practice. This approach is not only the most effective way to ensure compliance, but it can also dramatically reduce the costs, resources and time required to manage the risks from noise at work - and can even make the whole programme self-financing.
HAV Management Audit: repeat vibration measurements - or best practice Action to reduce costs? [390kb]
200 tools measured using a transducer attached with insulating tape... paying the supplier to measure all our tools every year... basing risk assessments on the Hire Association traffic-light system... The HAV Management Audit ensures that you avoid mistakes like these, generating a detailed Action Plan to update procedures to reflect current best practice. The most effective way to ensure compliance, it can also dramatically reduce the costs, resources and time required to manage HAVs risks.
Noise and Vibration Presentations
Noise Management and Control Best Practice: British Plastics Federation / HSE: Autumn 2007 [710kb]
Review of the key best practice approaches for both noise assessment and control in the plastics industry - including low cost engineering noise control case studies.
Top 10 Noise Control Techniques: Health & Safety 09, Sandown, February 2009 [1000kb]
This presentation provides details of the 10 engineering noise control
techniques that can be applied to some of the most common noise problems.
Complete with multi-media case studies, they are low cost, applicable
across wide range of industries and can be implement in-house.
Coming soon - more noise and vibration technical notes from the INVC.
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