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CxAUrt Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 14, 1972
THE BATTALION
Crackdown needed on industry noise, expert claims
Business and industry should
expert the U. 8. Department of
La hot to crack down on harmful
noise affecting man in his work
environment, an acoustic expert
told college professors attending
a unique teaching program at
A*M
Lee Wilson of TRACOR. Inc.,
an Austin-baaed sciences and sys
tems group, said the 1970 federal
Occupational Safety and Health
Act regulations on noise exposure
will be enforced, as well as all
other health and safety areas of
the act.
Speaking to 20 senior college
teachers from throughout the
-nation attending the "Institute
TV Station
(Continued from page 1)
"At Bagley, programming was
controlled from our truck parked
next to the building. We will
now be able to use the truck as a
self-contained unit for remote
broadcasts of sthletic events,
SCONA presentations or other
events."
Other unique aspects of the
ETV installation include studio
• lighting and arrangements in the
large studio control room for
TV production instruction. Phys
ical placement of video switcher,
monitors and window overlook
ing the studio were carefully
planned to minimise eye-travel.
Seats behind the television di
rector are equipped with student
headsets to monitor control com
munications. A separate set of
TV monitors will allow students
to observe how a production is
controlled.
Lighting has been modified for
both studios to allow lights to
be positioned and changed from
the floor. Light changes in ^ag-
ley Hall account for most of the
time ETV personnel put into
programming, followed by set
building and production.
The large studio has space for
standing news, “Famine Touch"
and interview-type program sets,
with space left for special effects
sets.
for Occupational Safaty and
Health Instructors," Wilson re
ported Wednesday the Labor De
partment conducted ever 4,000
OSH A noise-related inspections
last year.
He predicted increased empha
sis on reducing loud noise ex
posure in an effort to signifi
cantly cut employe hearing losses.
Wilson said OSH A investiga
tors agree noise is not curable,
but it is controllable. He also
reported
Nitty will not be limited to top
executives, but will be a responsi
bility of middle and lower man
agement too.
The college teachers are attend
ing the course under a grant from
the U. S. Public Health Service
to TAMU. Dr. Ralph V. Vernon,
institute coordinator here, said
the main objective is for each
participant to develop two courses
in occupational safety and health
which will be taught at their
individual colleges the coming
school year.
Instructors are 14 TAMU fac
ulty members from various col
leges and IS recognised experts
from industry, business and the
medical professions.
Wilson was assisted by Hogue
Lewis, president of Au^io-Med-
ical Systems, Inc., Austin.
Lewis, s TAMU graduate,
spoke on the technical aspects of
instruments used in sound and
noise evaluations, and presented
a workshop on actual use of the
instruments.
Wilson noted noise means a
particular sound with undesir
able affects on people. It can be
a personal annoyance or loud
sounds, he said, but the key is the
combined noise exposure levels
daily.
He said noise from a jet air
plane overhead approaches the
threshold of pain, with loudness
measurements today conducted by
a jury of listeners who respond
to various noise levels.
Controls outlined by Wilson
were engineering to reduce noise,
administrative controls such as
limiting employe contact with the
noise, sad personal protective
equipment such as ear plugs and
ear muffs.
He admitted while personal
protective equipment are the re
sponsibility of the employer, it
is difficult to get employee to use
them.
Wilson and Lewis outlined a
variety of scientific and engi
neering approaches to the prob
lems, gave the instructors a
number of technical publications
and demonstrated practical and
scientific approaches to noise
problem solving.
The institute continues through
Aug. 14.
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