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'Ridiculous' road works at 2am
Many council workers are exposed to high noise levels in their lines of work, especially road and construction workers. In Glasgow’s West End, council workers had to use noisy equipment to install new road markings. Unfortunately for the residents, they were exposed to the noise, too – and to make things worse, the works took place in the middle of the night on a Sunday.
Locals were baffled as they were woken by the sound of tarmac being scorched for new parking and loading bays. The work was delayed until the evening because of a cycling event in the area earlier on that day. One resident, a 54-year-old man, was certainly not impressed: ‘They were there until after 2 in the morning… the noise was ridiculous.’
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 states that the exposure limit to noise for workers is 87 decibels, taking into account any reduction in levels given by hearing protection. Sadly for the locals, these regulations don’t stipulate when that noisy work takes place!
Published date: 28th October 2016
Sources:
hse.gov.uk/noise/
eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14752749.Council_apologises_after_roads_workers_keep_locals_by_installing_parking_bays_at_2am/
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