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Asked by anon-74574 to Tatsuki on 14 May 2020.
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Tatsuki Fushimi answered on 14 May 2020:
My workplace is actually very quiet, and the loudest thing in my office is the construction across the street 😉
We only use ultrasound which is inaudible range of acoustic waves. So, even though the acoustic pressure itself is very high (louder than a jet engine), it does not have known harmful effect to humans.
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siobhanmullan commented on :
My job varies, when I am in the Office it is quiet but when I visit a site to see how a project is progressing there can be a lot of noise from plant machinery. As a Consultant Civil Engineer I am a Designer so usually office based, visiting sites for progress meetings and oversee the Construction works.
Ken commented on :
My job can be really noisy when I am close to the machines I work on. I work on gas turbine control systems and these machines can be so loud that we have to wear double hearing protection. The first protection is a set of ear defenders. They look like head phones and are designed to stop noise getting to the ears. These don’t stop all the noise and we also are ear plugs which fit inside the ears. Together these protect our ears. We use a kind of sign language to communicate. Not formal and very very basic. On the other hand when I am working with the computers that control these modern machines, they are usually in a very quiet place. So I have both a nosey environment and a quiet one too. So nosey that my heating would be damaged if I did not wear the protection and so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Asha commented on :
Very noisy! I am a civil engineer so if I am on site working next to huge piling rigs, pumps or excavators it can get quite loud. I also work in the office on innovation projects and analysing results… and it gets noisy in the office if I’m there laughing too loudly!
Either way, working in a noisy environment shouldn’t worry you because there are regulations in place to protect you, so this could be through wearing ear plugs or minimising exposure loud noise.
Conrad commented on :
Usually quite quiet (apart from the whirring of the computer fans) but can be quite noisy when on site checking out the boats that are in build.
Fidel commented on :
In the office, it’s usually not that noisy but can get a bit rowdy at times. In the lab, a lot of the elctronics I deal with have loud cooling fans so it is usually a bit noisy.
Kevin commented on :
If you are working with or around aircraft, and I do – they can get very noisy – so prepare to have conversations disrupted, and visitors go ‘ooooh’ every time a jet takes off. But design work can take place in ‘normal’ offices; and acoustic labs can be very, very quiet (I once stepped into an anechoic chamber and could her my own heart beat – very weird!)