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‘R’ is for room
Published in Ed Warren, B.A.R.D. in the Practice, 2018
What about music? If there are problems with sound insulation, having background music may be a way of ensuring confidentiality. Even if the sound permeates the consulting rooms, most people find it relaxing and think that it makes a positive contribution to the consultation.4
Premises
Published in Lyn Longridge, Premises and Information Technology your questions answered, 2018
Older buildings often have solid doors but may have thin partition walls dividing up the original large rooms. Modern buildings are more likely to have sound insulation built in but it is not always as effective as was originally hoped. An obvious way of ensuring that conversations within a consulting room are less likely to be overheard by patients sitting outside is to distance the waiting patients some way from the doctor’s room if at all possible. A second door with a small hallway between consulting room and waiting area is one way of achieving this. Rearranging the chairs to ensure that none is close to the door would be helpful. Another solution might be to have music or ‘white noise’ playing which masks all but the loudest conversations.
The accountant’s viewpoint
Published in Seamus Kehoe, Lynne Abbess, Valerie Martin, Neil Niblett, Peter Stylianou, Tony Stanton, Primary Healthcare Premises, 2018
Expenditure which is likely to qualify will include: Space- or water-heating systems, powered systems of ventilation, air cooling or air purification.Manufacturing or processing equipment, storage equipment, display equipment, counters, checkouts and similar equipment. This category will cover the reception desk and integral built-in equipment.Lifts, hoists, escalators and any moving walkways. However, the shafts or other structures in which the lifts, hoists, etc. are installed are excluded as being part of the structure of the building itself.Sound insulation if provided to meet the specific requirements of the business.Computer, telecommunications and surveillance systems, including their wiring and any other links.Burglar alarm systems.Sprinkler equipment and any other equipment for extinguishing or containing fire, and fire alarm systems.Wash basins, sinks, baths, showers, sanitary ware and similar equipment.Cookers, washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators, freezers, etc.Furniture and furnishings.Advertising signs, displays, etc.Partition walls, where moveable and intended to be moved in the course of the business. It is not enough for them just to be moveable.
A novel method for objective in-situ measurement of audibility in bone conduction hearing devices – a pilot study using a skin drive BCD
Published in International Journal of Audiology, 2023
Ann-Charlotte Persson, Bo Håkansson, Moksha Caveramma Mechanda, William Bill Hodgetts, Karl-Johan Fredén Jansson, Måns Eeg-Olofsson, Sabine Reinfeldt
The complete setup for the audibility measurements is presented in Supplemental Figure 1. All measures were taken in a sound-insulated test room with a volume of approximately 16 m3. The custom-made and battery-operated SM in Supplemental Figure 1a consists of an off-the-shelf microphone and a preamplifier circuit incorporated in a sound-insulated metallic casing (Hodgetts el al. 2018). Interiorly, the microphone and the preamplifier are further insulated by foam sealing and a soft ring muff leaving only the microphone inlet open in a hollow portion of the centre. In Supplemental Figure 1b it is shown how the SM is attached to the forehead using a soft band. To reduce the direct sound influence and aerial sound leakage from the speakers, which otherwise may bypass the sound transmission via the BCD during the test, further exterior sound insulation of the SM was provided using an earmuff (Peltor Optime III), as shown in Supplemental Figure 1c.
Occupational hazards, sleep quality and musculoskeletal problems of pregnant workers
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
An unfavourable working environment has negative consequences on physical and mental health. Higher levels of musculoskeletal pain have been identified in laboratory workers exposed to radiation compared to those with no exposure (Orme et al. 2015). It has been reported that exposure to excessive noise at work and the repetition of this situation may negatively affect the health of women and children. Inadequate ventilation and air pollution have been reported to reduce oxygen use in pregnant women and the foetus (Paul 2004). In the current study, work environment hazards were found to have negative effects on 8 items related to the questioning of the musculoskeletal system. In this respect, there can be considered to be a need for work environments with better ventilation, adjustable temperatures, and good sound insulation.
Effects of infrasound on health: looking for improvements in housing conditions
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
David Baeza Moyano, Roberto Alonso González Lezcano
Nowadays, regulations on building acoustics focus on the requirements for sound insulation of a building’s living areas against adjacent areas and against external noise. In addition, there are requirements for sound insulation of the construction elements that make up a building, requirements for sound absorption in specific areas of a building and requirements relating to noise and vibrations from building installations.