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No. 137: Shush! Stop that noise!
- a report on the Board’s consensus conference on noise Every tenth Dane is hearing-impaired, and the problem is increasing. Ever more children’s hearing is damaged because of noise in day care institutions. And the Health and Safety at Work Act does not prevent damage to the sense of hearing.Disturbing noise from traffic, construction, other people and machines is the environmental problem that affects most people. Even though the unwanted noise is not particularly loud, it may cause high blood pressure, more stress hormones in the blood, and fraying nerves. Even low levels of noise cause problems for children in their acquisition of language and other complicated social skills. Still, there is only little political awareness of the problem. A lay panel at the Danish Board of Technology Conference on Noise recommended that a much more ambitious political plan for the prevention of noise be carried out in Denmark. This "From Board to Parliament" reports on the Board’s consensus conference on noise, which took place on 12-13 and 15 May at Christiansborg. This newsletter is only avaliable in PDF format. Download below. Last update: 06-01-2009 
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