Current legislation imposes to companies the risk assessment of workers arising from exposure to physical agents. Noise is one of the principal cause of occupational disease, for this reason its evaluation is very important. In every work place there will be noise sources more or less harmful.
Europe classified most dangerous work place:
- Transport (airport, road transport)
- Building site,
- Agriculture, fishing, silviculture (due to the use of noisy equipment as tractor, threshing machine, …)
- Food and drink industry
- Mining industry
- Wood industry
- Metallurgical industry
- Call centres
- Entertainment