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#1 Posted : 10 April 2007 16:27:00(UTC)
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Posted By Warren Shaw Why are wheelie bins marked with a CE sign at 89dB? Is this the noise level at 4am when you put the bin out? If so, what is the rating for the glass recycling bin? If so what SNR rated ear protection should you offer your neighbours? Is it something to do with CE marking process? Any ideas what this marking actually relates to?
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#2 Posted : 11 April 2007 08:10:00(UTC)
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Posted By Gff If you neighbours work in your bin and you employ them then yes
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#3 Posted : 11 April 2007 08:11:00(UTC)
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Posted By Gff this is the max noise they will make when being empties and being rolled accross the ground when emptied
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#4 Posted : 11 April 2007 09:12:00(UTC)
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Posted By Robert K Lewis Gff Have to ask what constitutes the "standard ground surface smoothness" for the test? I suppose it could also be the rattle noise of emptying. What it does mean however is that these operatives must be issued with and use hearing protection. Only problem is that they may then make more noise because they do not know how loud it is at 0700 hours. Bob
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#5 Posted : 11 April 2007 09:17:00(UTC)
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Posted By Gff [shrugs] :0(
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#6 Posted : 11 April 2007 09:52:00(UTC)
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter Warren Hearing protection would only be required if the operatives' noise exposure is over 85 dB(A). This will depend on several factors, of which the noise emitted by the empty bins is only one. Paul
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#7 Posted : 11 April 2007 10:19:00(UTC)
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Posted By Lulu I'm so glad you asked this I have always wondered too
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#8 Posted : 11 April 2007 10:23:00(UTC)
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Posted By Robert K Lewis Paul I do not think I am going further down this road - just imagine trying to sort out the exposure of such people - totally self supervised, on task and finish and in the middle of all sorts of traffic. As an aside perhaps this is the noise of the machine that makes them:-) Far more sensible I think!!!!! Just going to see if there is a dB rating to the kettle when it boils. Bob
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