May 25----noise pollution

We don't spent enough time thinking about noise and the impact it has upon us!

Dr. Rokho Kim Project Manager of Noise and Health for the World Health Organisation joined us for a conversation about noise.

http://www.euro.who.int/

	Noise and housing
	Background
	Exposure-response relationships
	Aircraft noise and health
	Children, noise and health

Noise seriously harms human health and interferes with people’s daily activities at school, at work, at home and during leisure time. Traffic noise alone is harming today the health of almost every third European. The main health risks of noise identified by WHO are:

• pain and hearing fatigue;
• hearing impairment including tinnitus;
• annoyance;
• interferences with social behaviour (aggressiveness, protest and helplessness);
• interference with speech communication;
• sleep disturbance and all its consequences on a long and short term basis;
• cardiovascular effects;
• hormonal responses (stress hormones) and their possible consequences on human metabolism (nutrition) and immune system;
• performance at work and school.

The programme on noise and health at ECEH Bonn reviews the evidence on main health effects of noise and identifies the needs of specific vulnerable groups. Working in close co-operation with other WHO programmes ECEH Bonn develops indicators and guidelines for noise and health, analyses exposure-response relationships for different health effects and studies the long-term effects of night exposure to noise such as long-term sleep disturbance and cardiovascular disease.

We were also joined by Ahmed Abdul Kareem safety engineer Building Department of the Dubai Municipality to speak about noise issues.

Contact the municipality with complaints about construction noise 800-900 24/7.

There are approximately 7000 construction projects in Dubai today!