Using HAVBase for virtual risk assessments
Mary Cameron, Hygiene Partners
This article was published in the BOHS Exposure Magazine to provide details of how they have been using our HAVBase to carry out virtual HAVS risk assessments for their clients.
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Why are so many noise reports so poor? Tonal evaluation.
Expressing 40 years of frustration since founding INVC... Peter Wilson
I was due to give a presentation at the 2019 CIEH INVC conference: "Why are most noise consultant reports inadequate". The title was changed at the last minute to "Noise consultant reports: current best practice approaches" because “Some of our colleagues in the industry mention to us that ‘most noise consultants’ is quite a generalisation and perhaps not the sort of message we should be saying, quite so strongly."
I remarked on this in a room of EHOs, saying I felt that around 80% of reports we saw were inadequate. The chair (IOA president at the time) pulled me up “You can’t say that...” I asked the audience. A couple said they strongly disagreed with my statement – as it was 90% or more...
2023 EA report quality survey: 95% of consultant noise reports were inadequate: 60% extremely poor, 30% very poor, 5% poor. EHO accuracy!
And a major elephant in the noise industry room is...?
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