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Reduction of employees exposure to the noise emitted by a machine tool

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Published: 04 June 2023

Exposure of employees to the noise emitted by a machine tool is highly undesirable:

• for employees themselves:
  • deteriorating working conditions, causing difficulties in communicating and in perceiving audible warning signals
  • causing discomfort, fatigue, stress or even hearing loss
• for employers:
  • resulting, depending on the context, in loss of quality of workshop production, absenteeism, difficulties in filling some positions or even costs for compensation for deafness when...

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Limitation of reverberation and noise by means of acoustic screens in a collective catering room

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Published: 02 May 2023

The limitation of reverberation and noise by means of acoustic screens is suitable for obtaining sound comfort for a wide variety of enclosed spaces:

• in the canteens of educational establishments^[1], and in other collective catering rooms (medico-social i.e. in hospitals^[2], retirement homes, for administrations and companies^[3],[4] and also for holiday centres) without forgetting commercial catering (e.g. restaurants, brasseries, cafeterias, snack bars, fast food establishments.
• in open...

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Limitation of industrial noise pollution by means of sound enclosures and noise barrier walls

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Published: 08 April 2023

ITS participated in the limitation of industrial noise pollution by means of enclosures and noise barrier walls, for an electricity production site located in the Middle East, as in the context of many similar projects carried out elsewhere in the world.

Industrial noise pollution must be combated in many sectors, e.g. rubber, plastics, metallurgy, textiles & clothing, food processing, electronics, electrical equipment and machines, wood, paper, furniture, chemicals, pharmaceuticals...

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