Hygiena 2019, 64(4):164-169 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1724

Historical noise burden is still an issue

Dana Potužníková¹, Tomáš Hellmuth¹, Aleš Jiráska¹, David Kresl¹, Lubomír Píša¹, Vítězslav Křivánek²

¹ Národní referenční laboratoř pro komunální hluk při Zdravotním ústavu se sídlem v Ostravě, Ústí nad Orlicí, Česká republika

² Centrum dopravního výzkumu, v. v i., Brno, Česká republika

On 30 July 2016, the Government Decree No. 272/2011 Coll., On health protection against adverse effects of noise and vibrations, became effective. The amendment in § 12 still includes the possibility of granting a correction to the so-called "old noise load" and adjusts the conditions under which a +20 dB correction can be admitted to the baseline sound pressure level A L_Aeq,T 50 dB. Correction to the old noise load was introduced in 2000 as an analogy to the reduction of old ecological burdens in the environment. This paper deals with the analysis of problems that the "historical noise burdens" institute brings in practice 19 years after its introduction into the legal system in the field of public health protection against environmental noise.

Keywords: historical noise burden, legislation, public health noise limits, noise reduction

Received: June 2019; Revised: June 24, 2019; Accepted: September 18, 2019; Published: November 30, 2019  Show citation