World Health Organisation – ICAN Acoustics

The Burden of Disease from Environmental Noise.

In 2011 the World Health Organization (WHO) published the report Burden of disease from environmental noise: Quantification of healthy life years lost in Europe (read here). The report estimated that at least one million healthy life years 14 are lost every year from environmental noise in the western part of Europe, specifically: 61,000 years for [...]

Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region (2018).

ICAN Acoustics welcomes what appears to be very comprehensive guidance on some of the traditional sources of noise such as road traffic, aircraft and railway noise. Notably however the newer guidance now considers both wind turbine noise and leisure noise in addition to the traditional sources of noise. We would be more than happy to interpret [...]