Thread: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
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Unread 30-03-2013, 13:26
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Re: Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT
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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
Checking the volume levels with dB meters often shows they are way over the threshold at which hearing damage occurs. And it's not because of the tools (I worked in a machine shop during college, and you can usually have a normal conversation with an indoor voice in there when all the machines were running), it's the music and announcements; they are unnecessarily loud.

This level of noise pollution is a genuine safety issue that I believe needs to be resolved, because it is slowly causing permanent injury to long-term partipants in FRC.
This would be a good place in the thread for one our safety folks to chime in. What is currently being done to monitor noise levels? Anything?
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