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123 Acoustics Australia Vol. 44, No. 1, April 2016 Acoustics Australia Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief: Marion Burgess (Australia) Managing Editor: Truda King (Australia) Ross Chapman (Canada) Densil Cabrera (Australia) Nicole Kessissoglou (Australia) Steffen Marburg (Germany) Jer Ming Chen (Singapore) Neville Fletcher (Australia) George Dodd (New Zealand) Frits van den Berg (Netherlands) Acoustics Australia is published by the Australian Acoustical Society (A.B.N. 28 000 712 658) ISSN 0814-6039 Responsibility for the contents of articles and advertisements rests upon the contributors and not the Australian Acoustical Society. All articles and technical notes (but not Acoustics Forum and Letters) are sent for peer review before acceptance. Acoustics Australia is abstracted and indexed in all major data bases and has an Impact Factor of 0.565 (2014). Acoustics Australia The papers and technical notes are available from the journal website www. springer.com/engineering/journal/40857. All members of the Australian Acoustical Society have free access to the papers and technical notes but must log in via the member area of the AAS website and follow the link to the journal. Editorial Enquiries The Editor, Acoustics Australia [email protected] www.acoustics.asn.au Submissions All Articles www.springer.com/engineering/ journal/40857 News, New Products and Books for Review [email protected] Subscription Enquiries www.springer.com/engineering/ journal/40857 Advertising Mrs Leigh Wallbank Tel (02) 9528 4362 Fax (02) 9589 0547 [email protected] Acoustics Australia Vol. 44, No. 1 April 2016 ACOUSTICS NEWS AND REGULAR ITEMS SPECIAL ISSUE – WORKPLACE NOISE AND VIBRATION INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS Top 10 Noise Control Techniques: 2015 - Peter Wilson Active Noise Control in Workplaces - Jie Pan, Roshun Paurobally, Xiaojun Qiu Buy Quiet Initiative in the USA - Bryan Beamer, Trudi McCleery, Charles Hayden Buy Quiet as a Means of Reducing Workplace Noise - Paul Brereton, Jacqueline Patel Uncovering Effective Strategies for Hearing Loss Prevention - Thais C. Morata, Deanna Meinke Measuring the Risk of Impulsive Noise at Work: One Practitioner’s Tips - Elizabeth Brueck Preventing Hearing Loss in Construction in the U.S.A.: Challenges and Opportunities - Scott Schneider Fitness Instructors and Noise Exposure: Spreading the Hearing Health Message - Valerie Nie, Elizabeth Beach The Noise Reduction Provided by Aviation Headsets - Marion Burgess, Brett R. C. Molesworth Reducing Exposure to Vibration at Work: Building a Regulatory Policy Intervention from the Ground Up - Daniel Arquero, Paul Taylor Hand-arm Vibration Exposure in Warm Climates: Promoting Awareness of Health Effects and Controls to Employees, Management and Contractors - Rebecca Devine The Development and Use of Tools to Support Workplace Hand-Arm Vibration Exposure Evaluation - Paul Pitts, Paul Brereton The Efficacy of Anti-vibration Gloves - Sue Hewitt, Ren Dong, Tom McDowell, Daniel Welcome Measuring and managing workplace whole-body vibration exposures - Robin Burgess-Limerick GENERAL SUBMISSIONS Original Papers Boundary Element Modelling of a Novel Simple Enhanced Bandwidth Schroeder Diffuser Offering Comparable Performance to a Fractal Design - Andrew Lock, Damien Holloway Influence of the Microstructure in the Acoustical Performance of Consolidated Lightweight Granular Materials - Rubén Maderuelo-Sanz, Antonio V. Nadal-Gisbert, José E. Crespo-Amorós, Juan Miguel Barrigón Morillas, Francisco Parres-García, Ernesto Juliá Sanchis Whistle Characteristics of Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in the Fremantle Inner Harbour, Western Australia - Rhianne Ward, Iain Parnum, Christine Erbe, Chandra Salgado-Kent Underwater Sound in an Urban Estuarine River: Sound Sources, Soundscape Contribution and Temporal Variability - Sarah A. Marley, Christine Erbe, Chandra P. Salgado-Kent Tutorial Paper An Experimentally Measured Source–Filter Model: Glottal Flow, Vocal Tract Gain and Output Sound from a Physical Model - Joe Wolfe, Derek Tze Wei Chu, Jer-Ming Chen, John Smith Letter Systems Thinking Approach for Rail Freight Noise Mitigation - Sakdirat Kaewunruen Editorials Abstracts News Acoustics Forum - Australian Workplace Exposure Survey (AWES) - Hearing: Examining Noise, Vibration and Ototoxic Chemicals in Australian Workplaces - Kate Lewkowski - Developments in Individual Fit Testing of Hearing Protectors - Luciana Macedo - Delivering Personal Hearing Dose Management to the Workplace Headset - Richard P Glover New Products Future Conferences Sustaining Members Diary Acoust Aust (2016) 44:1–32 DOI 10.1007/s40857-016-0057-4 © Australian Acoustical Society 2016

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Acoustics AustraliaEditorial BoardEditor-in-Chief: Marion Burgess (Australia)Managing Editor: Truda King (Australia)

Ross Chapman (Canada)Densil Cabrera (Australia)Nicole Kessissoglou (Australia)Steffen Marburg (Germany)Jer Ming Chen (Singapore)Neville Fletcher (Australia)George Dodd (New Zealand)Frits van den Berg (Netherlands)

Acoustics Australia is published by the Australian Acoustical Society (A.B.N. 28 000 712 658) ISSN 0814-6039

Responsibility for the contents of articles and advertisements rests upon the contributors and not the Australian Acoustical Society.

All articles and technical notes (but not Acoustics Forum and Letters) are sent for peer review before acceptance. Acoustics Australia is abstracted and indexed in all major data bases and has an Impact Factor of 0.565 (2014).

Acoustics AustraliaThe papers and technical notes are available from the journal website www.springer.com/engineering/journal/40857. All members of the Australian Acoustical Society have free access to the papers and technical notes but must log in via the member area of the AAS website and follow the link to the journal.

Editorial EnquiriesThe Editor, Acoustics [email protected]

SubmissionsAll Articleswww.springer.com/engineering/journal/40857

News, New Products and Books for [email protected]

Subscription Enquirieswww.springer.com/engineering/journal/40857

AdvertisingMrs Leigh WallbankTel (02) 9528 4362Fax (02) 9589 [email protected]

Acoustics Australia

Vol. 44, No. 1 April 2016

ACOUSTICS NEWS AND REGULAR ITEMS

SPECIAL ISSUE – WORKPLACE NOISE AND VIBRATION INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS

Top 10 Noise Control Techniques: 2015 - Peter Wilson

Active Noise Control in Workplaces - Jie Pan, Roshun Paurobally, Xiaojun Qiu

Buy Quiet Initiative in the USA - Bryan Beamer, Trudi McCleery, Charles Hayden

Buy Quiet as a Means of Reducing Workplace Noise - Paul Brereton, Jacqueline Patel

Uncovering Effective Strategies for Hearing Loss Prevention - Thais C. Morata, Deanna Meinke

Measuring the Risk of Impulsive Noise at Work: One Practitioner’s Tips - Elizabeth Brueck

Preventing Hearing Loss in Construction in the U.S.A.: Challenges and Opportunities - Scott Schneider

Fitness Instructors and Noise Exposure: Spreading the Hearing Health Message - Valerie Nie,

Elizabeth Beach

The Noise Reduction Provided by Aviation Headsets - Marion Burgess, Brett R. C. Molesworth

Reducing Exposure to Vibration at Work: Building a Regulatory Policy Intervention from the Ground Up - Daniel Arquero, Paul Taylor

Hand-arm Vibration Exposure in Warm Climates: Promoting Awareness of Health Effects and Controls to Employees, Management and Contractors - Rebecca Devine

The Development and Use of Tools to Support Workplace Hand-Arm Vibration Exposure Evaluation - Paul Pitts, Paul Brereton

The Efficacy of Anti-vibration Gloves - Sue Hewitt, Ren Dong, Tom McDowell, Daniel Welcome

Measuring and managing workplace whole-body vibration exposures - Robin Burgess-Limerick

GENERAL SUBMISSIONS

Original Papers Boundary Element Modelling of a Novel Simple Enhanced Bandwidth Schroeder Diffuser Offering Comparable Performance to a Fractal Design - Andrew Lock, Damien Holloway

Influence of the Microstructure in the Acoustical Performance of Consolidated Lightweight Granular Materials - Rubén Maderuelo-Sanz, Antonio V. Nadal-Gisbert, José E. Crespo-Amorós, Juan

Miguel Barrigón Morillas, Francisco Parres-García, Ernesto Juliá Sanchis

Whistle Characteristics of Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in the Fremantle Inner Harbour, Western Australia - Rhianne Ward, Iain Parnum, Christine Erbe, Chandra Salgado-Kent

Underwater Sound in an Urban Estuarine River: Sound Sources, Soundscape Contribution and Temporal Variability - Sarah A. Marley, Christine Erbe, Chandra P. Salgado-Kent

Tutorial Paper An Experimentally Measured Source–Filter Model: Glottal Flow, Vocal Tract Gain and Output Sound from a Physical Model - Joe Wolfe, Derek Tze Wei Chu, Jer-Ming Chen, John Smith

Letter Systems Thinking Approach for Rail Freight Noise Mitigation - Sakdirat Kaewunruen

Editorials Abstracts News

Acoustics Forum - Australian Workplace Exposure Survey (AWES) - Hearing: Examining Noise, Vibration and Ototoxic Chemicals in Australian Workplaces - Kate Lewkowski

- Developments in Individual Fit Testing of Hearing Protectors - Luciana Macedo

- Delivering Personal Hearing Dose Management to the Workplace Headset - Richard P Glover

New Products Future Conferences Sustaining Members Diary

Acoust Aust (2016) 44:1–32DOI 10.1007/s40857-016-0057-4 © Australian Acoustical Society 2016

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“I –an –ear –u- I -an’- under--and!”

“I worry that I won’t hear the warning signals”. “The constant ringing in my head is very

get to sleep”. “Noise leaves me tired at the end of the workday and someone has told me it can contribute to heart conditions.”

“Some chemicals at work can also make my hearing worse.”

simple things like doing up buttons.” “My back aches after a day driving the big machines.”

FROM THE GUEST EDITOR

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AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL INCIDENCE OF NIHL CLAIMS PER MILLION EMPLOYEES

Marion BurgessEditor in Chief

FROM THE CHIEF EDITOR

Pamela Gunn FAAS

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ACOUSTICS AUSTRALIA 44(1), 2016 ABSTRACTSThe full papers for these abstracts can be found in the online version of Acoustics Australia.Members of the Australian Acoustical Society should access via the member login of the AAS website. Access for all others is via http://link.springer.com/journal/40857

SPECIAL ISSUE – WORKPLACE NOISE AND VIBRATION INVITED PAPERS

TOP 10 NOISE CONTROL TECHNIQUES: 2015Peter Wilson

ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL IN WORKPLACES Jie Pan, Roshun Paurobally, Xiaojun Qiu

BUY QUIET INITIATIVE IN THE USA Bryan Beamer, Trudi McCleery, Charles Hayden

BUY QUIET AS A MEANS OF REDUCING WORKPLACE NOISE Paul Brereton, Jacqueline Patel

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UNCOVERING EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR HEARING LOSS PREVENTION Thais C. Morata, Deanna Meinke

MEASURING THE RISK OF IMPULSIVE NOISE AT WORK: ONE PRACTITIONER’S TIPS Elizabeth Brueck

PREVENTING HEARING LOSS IN CONSTRUCTION IN THE U.S.A.: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Scott Schneider

FITNESS INSTRUCTORS AND NOISE EXPOSURE: SPREADING THE HEARING HEALTH MESSAGE Valerie Nie, Elizabeth Beach

THE NOISE REDUCTION PROVIDED BY AVIATION HEADSETSMarion Burgess, Brett R. C. Molesworth

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REDUCING EXPOSURE TO VIBRATION AT WORK: BUILDING A REGULATORY POLICY INTERVENTION FROM THE GROUND UP Daniel Arquero, Paul Taylor

HAND-ARM VIBRATION EXPOSURE IN WARM CLIMATES: PROMOTING AWARENESS OF HEALTH EFFECTS AND CONTROLS TO EMPLOYEES, MANAGEMENT AND CONTRACTORS Rebecca Devine

THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF TOOLS TO SUPPORT WORKPLACE HAND-ARM VIBRATION EXPOSURE EVALUATION Paul Pitts, Paul Brereton

THE EFFICACY OF ANTI-VIBRATION GLOVES Sue Hewitt, Ren Dong, Tom McDowell, Daniel Welcome

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MEASURING AND MANAGING WORKPLACE WHOLE-BODY VIBRATION EXPOSURES Robin Burgess-Limerick

GENERAL SUBMISSIONS

ORIGINAL PAPERBOUNDARY ELEMENT MODELLING OF A NOVEL SIMPLE ENHANCED BANDWIDTH SCHROEDER DIFFUSER OFFERING COMPARABLE PERFORMANCE TO A FRACTAL DESIGN Andrew Lock, Damien Holloway

ORIGINAL PAPERINFLUENCE OF THE MICROSTRUCTURE IN THE ACOUSTICAL PERFORMANCE OF CONSOLIDATED LIGHTWEIGHT GRANULAR MATERIALS Rubén Maderuelo-Sanz, Antonio V. Nadal-Gisbert, José E. Crespo-

Amorós, Juan Miguel Barrigón Morillas, Francisco Parres-García,

Ernesto Juliá Sanchis

ORIGINAL PAPERWHISTLE CHARACTERISTICS OF INDO-PACIFIC BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS (TURSIOPS ADUNCUS) IN THE FREMANTLE INNER HARBOUR, WESTERN AUSTRALIA Rhianne Ward, Iain Parnum, Christine Erbe, Chandra Salgado-Kent

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ORIGINAL PAPERUNDERWATER SOUND IN AN URBAN ESTUARINE RIVER: SOUND SOURCES, SOUNDSCAPE CONTRIBUTION, AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY Sarah A. Marley, Christine Erbe, Chandra P. Salgado-Kent

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TUTORIAL PAPERAN EXPERIMENTALLY MEASURED SOURCE–FILTER MODEL: GLOTTAL FLOW, VOCAL TRACT GAIN AND OUTPUT

SOUND FROM A PHYSICAL MODEL Joe Wolfe, Derek Tze Wei Chu, Jer-Ming Chen, John Smith

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Aircraft and Property Values

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Experiences from the 2015 ConferenceRecipients of travel grants from the NSW Division are required to provide comments on their experiences. This report has been provided by Marshall Hall

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ACOUSTICS FORUM

DELIVERING PERSONAL HEARING DOSE MANAGEMENT TO THE WORKPLACE HEADSET

Abstract

The Scenarios

Earpiece use: Dominant noise-dose from:

The Measurement Challenge

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The Non-Measurement Challenge

A Framework

Mitigation based on: Description:

Table 2: Control Measures for Earpiece-NIHL.

System-based Mitigation

Earpiece-based Mitigation

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Auxiliary Device-based Mitigation

Mitigation in Critical Areas

Education and Management

Management Decision

In Practice

Degree of Control Cost-Effective Mitigation

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Table 3 – Summary of Mitigation Measures

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Summary

Acknowledgement

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