Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Human response to noise and vibration (17.ZR441)

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Occupational Safety Engineering (Year: 4, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Mechanics Inženjerstvo zaštite na radu
ECTS	6

The aims are to enable students to comprehend knowledge of human responses to noise and vibration in their working environment, to understand effects of noise and vibration on a human body, and to integrate the knowledge into practical applications.

Deep understanding and knowledge on: principal responses to noise in working environement (e.g., perception, annoyance, noise-induced hearing loss); principal responses to whole-body vibration (e.g., perception, comfort, motion sickness, performance, and health) and hand-transmitted vibration (e.g., the hand-arm vibration syndrome, including vibration-induced white finger); principal methods of measuring and evaluating noise and vibration with respect to human responses in working environement. Developed ability to recognise and select appropriate standards, recommendations, or regulations that apply to particular environments (e.g., commercial, transport, industrial).

The human auditory system. Noise and health. Hearing damage risk. Disturbance of speech communication. Prediction. Standards. Annoyance at work and in other environments. Sleep disturbance. Planning and noise. Vibration Principles of the measurement and evaluation of human vibration exposures. Standards and Directives for whole-body vibration and hand-transmitted vibration. Health effects of whole-body vibration. Discomfort produced by whole-body vibration. Vibration thresholds. Building vibration. Biodynamics (body transmissibility, apparent mass, models). Seating dynamics (transmissibility, models). Health effects of hand-transmitted vibration, their diagnosis, and prevention. Measurement, evaluation, and assessment of the vibration of powered hand-held tools. Causes of motion sickness intransport.

Lectures. Auditory exercises. Laboratory exercises. Consultation. Continuous monitoring of the level of students knowledge through four tests (mandatory) and laboratory exercises. Examination.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
K.D. Kryter	The Handbook of Hearing and the Effects of Noise	1994	Academic Press	English
M.J. Griffin	Handbook of Human Vibration	1996	Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Test	Yes	Yes	10.00
Test	Yes	Yes	10.00
Laboratory exercise defence	Yes	Yes	10.00
Test	Yes	Yes	10.00
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	50.00
Laboratory exercise defence	Yes	Yes	10.00
Written part of the exam - tasks and theory	No	No	40.00