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Another health hazard, sometimes not recognised as such, is noise. Some countries have regulations stipulating the accept­able noise levels and exposure times. It must be remembered that the fan duty will largely determine the fan noise. High pres­sure fans will be noisier than low pressure fans. System resis­tance should therefore be kept as low as possible.

Some fan types are inherently noisy. Large equipment, in gen­eral, is noisy. Noise levels can be attenuated by fitting acoustic enclosures. However, these tend to drastically diminish the maintainability of the equipment by hindering access. In some instances, costly acoustic enclosures have been removed at site and scrapped in order to achieve acceptable access. One easy solution to this hazard is to declare certain areas “Ear Protection Zones”.

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