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Hazard 14: Noise Healthy Home Rating System (HHRS) 2015 1 Description of hazard Covers threats to physical and mental health resulting from exposure to noise inside the dwelling or within its curtilage. 2015 Potential Harm No

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Hazard 14: Noise

Healthy Home Rating System (HHRS)

2015 1

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Description of hazard

  • Covers threats to physical and mental health

resulting from exposure to noise inside the dwelling or within its curtilage.

2015

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Potential Harm

  • No Particular age group is more vulnerable than

the other. However the elderly is affected more by noise causing sleep disruption.

  • Men tend to response to noise with outwardly

directed aggression, describing their feelings as annoyance, aggravation, bitterness and anger.

  • Women tend to suppress their reactions to noise

and direct them inwards. Women will instead say they are tense, fraught or anxious.

2015

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Health Effects

  • Between 7.5 and 18% of households are

dissatisfied because of noise of neighbors.

  • 5.5% are dissatisfied because of road traffic noise
  • 4.0% are dissatisfied because of people outside.
  • The best understood effects of noise are

psychological disturbances and psychological changes resulting from annoyance and sleep

  • disturbance. 2015
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Health effect cont.…

  • Typical health effects are stress responses,

sleep disorders and lack of concentration.

  • Headaches, anxiety and irritability are also

associated with noise induced stress and the effects of sleep disturbance can affect the mood for the following day.

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Causes

  • Noise in the home is a common complaint.
  • 1 in 3 people said that environmental noise

disturbed their home lives to some extent.

  • Residents of rented accommodations are more

likely to report noise as a serious problem than

  • wner occupiers. 2015
  • Night time traffic noise is more dangerous to

health than day time noise because of lack of

  • sleep. 2015
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Preventive Measures

  • In order to reduce loud noises, the level of

insulation should be appropriate for the ambient noise levels

  • Noises from plumbing can be reduced by

being properly constructed to reduce the sound of impact and sound transmission.

2015

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Healthy Home Rating System Project Leadership

2015

Lyke Thompson Director CUS/WSU (313) 577-5209 ad5122@wayne.edu Carrie Beth Lasley Research Associate CUS/WSU (313) 577-9280 cblasley@wayne.edu Angie Sarb Research Assistant CUS/WSU (313) 577-8911 angie.sarb@wayne.edu David Ormandy Professorial Fellow University of Warwick +44 (0) 76524 936 david.ormandy@warwick.ac.uk