Noise criteria are constantly changing and it is important to stay up to date. The following provides information on some of the upcoming changes. The Qld legislation is reviewed every 10 years, so the existing 2008 documents will be revised with new Environmental Protection (Noise) Policy and Environmental Protection Regs due in 2018. The World Health Organisation has been updating noise criteria and this will be one of the topics for discussion at a conference in Zurich, Switzerland in Mid 2017. The Mining Guideline for Qld includes noise criteria and vibration criteria for blasting and is presently being reviewed. The NSW Industrial Noise policy consultation period closed at the end of 2015. Other recent changes are the aircraft noise standard AS2021 updated in 2015, and the recommended noise levels and reverberation times standard AS/NZS 2107 updated in 2016.

Find out more above current noise criteria and vibration criteria here , or contact us.