Webinar | How COVID-19 is affecting what we’re hearing

Speakers : Jeremy Trotman, Director JTA, and William Dalmau, Senior Acoustic Consultant JTA

COVID-19 has changed our lives and the way we conduct our businesses. To help you adapt to the new norm we are launching our COVID-19 SERIES of live webinars. Each webinar will address a key area across our portfolio of health, safety and noise. Our first webinar looks at How COVID-19 is affecting what we’re hearing.

What we talk about in this webinar: 

1. Noise assessments during social distancing
   a. Remote monitoring equipment, personal dosimeters and free standing sound meters
   b. Changing the process to accommodate split shifts
   c. Hearing test requirements for stood down workers
   d. Advantages of conducting assessments during the COVID-19 period
2. How COVID-19 is changing the noise landscape
   a. Managing increased complaints due to quieter ambient noise
   b. Noise limits and goals for construction projects
   c. Appropriate noise mitigation strategies
   d. The role of computer noise modelling
3. Noise and compliance during COVID-19
   a. What do the regulations and legislation actually say  
   b. Your obligations for the next 6 months 
   c. Is Work Safe still visiting sites and issuing fines
4. Noise after COVID-19
   a. What happens when its back to business as normal
   b. How to predict which activities are going to cause issues 
   c. Implementing mitigation strategies to avoid community complaints

Using current downtime to provide remote Noise Awareness Training

Download Slide Deck – April Webinar 2020 - How COVID-19 is affecting what we’re hearing.​