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INTRODUCTION For more than three decades the sound level criteria used for oil and gas platforms have been based on dB(A), and now repeated in the latest Health and Safety Statutory Instrument 2005 No.1643 ‘The control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005.’ In this paper we intend to illustrate the shortfalls in applying the dB(A) criterion to oil and gas platform topsides, specifically the accommodation, and propose a new method of setting criteria more suited to this application, in which there are high levels of low frequency noise, difficult to control.
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