Decree of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Socialist Republic No. 14 / 1977 Coll.
Decree of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Socialist Republic on the protection of health against adverse effects of noise and vibration
Valid
Effective from 01.07.1977
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DECLARATION
Ministry of Health of the Slovak Socialist Republic
of 14 January 1977
on the protection of health from adverse effects of noise and vibration
The Ministry of Health of the Slovak Socialist Republic provides according to § 70 paragraph 1 in relation to § 71 paragraph 2 of Act No. 20 / 1966 Coll., on the care of the health of the people:
Basic provisions
Scope of protection
This decree regulates the protection against the adverse effects of noise and mechanical vibration ("vibrations') which threaten people's health and reduce their physical and mental capacity.
General obligations of organisations, bodies and citizens
(1) State, cooperative, social and other organisations (hereinafter referred to as "organisations") as well as citizens are obliged to take the necessary measures to reduce noise and vibration and to ensure that workers and other citizens are at the least possible exposure to noise and vibration; In particular, they shall ensure that the maximum permissible noise and vibration levels laid down in this Regulation and in the Annex, (1) which form an integral part thereof, as well as in the specific legislation.2) are not exceeded.
(2) The competent authorities and organisations are required to constantly lead subordinate organisations to implement noise and vibration measures, to check how they comply with their obligations in this section, and to draw the consequences of failure to fulfil those obligations.
(3) The central government bodies, senior bodies of cooperatives and social organisations, national committees, directorates-general and other central management bodies shall, in cooperation with the organisations they manage, draw up and ensure compliance with the planned reduction of noise and vibration. They also focus on scientific and technological research on noise and vibration reduction and on the prompt introduction of research results into production and other plants.
Obligations of production, supply and import organisations
(1) Organisations which design, design and manufacture machinery, tools, means of transport and other equipment which is a source of noise or vibration (hereinafter referred to as "equipment") are required to design and determine design conditions including material and technical modifications of equipment according to the current state of science and technology so that noise and vibration are reduced in accordance with health protection needs.
(2) If additional equipment limiting noise and vibration (e.g. sound absorbers, flexible storage devices, device covers and operating cabins) is needed to fulfil the conditions laid down in this Decree, the organisation shall supply them or supply them with the equipment.
(3) If it is not temporarily possible for an installation, including with additional equipment, to meet the conditions laid down in this Decree, or if it is economically economically more economically advantageous to deal with the protection by other technical means, the organisation shall supply at least those facilities for which these conditions may be met if further measures are taken by them. In such cases, organisations are required to communicate such additional measures to customers, in particular to provide them with instructions for correct installation, installation and use, including building and spatial requirements, processed also in terms of noise and vibration protection.
(4) The technical documentation of the equipment which is the source of noise and vibrations approaching the maximum permissible values must contain such data as to enable measures to be taken to prevent harmful effects if necessary. This also applies to equipment used in conditions where the noise or vibration of such equipment may cause the maximum permissible noise and vibration levels to be exceeded. Organisations producing or supplying equipment shall be responsible for ensuring that the noise and vibration values specified in the technical documentation can be complied with once these measures have been implemented.
(5) An organisation which requires the importation of equipment must include the necessary import requirements in the draft economic contract and, where appropriate, take other measures to comply with the conditions laid down in this Decree. The Foreign Trade Organisation shall apply these requirements to the Foreign Organisation and only import such facilities as correspond to them.
Obligations of project and construction organisations
(1) Organisations proposing urban, construction or technical solutions to buildings and organisations implementing them are obliged to require from the organisations producing, supplying or requesting their importation the measures provided for in Article 3 and to use them in their activities; technical and organisational solutions are required to be applied in a way that guarantees compliance with the provisions of this Decree.
(2) The design documentation of the buildings in whose operation the noise and vibrations could be adversely affected to workers, residents or other users of the buildings must contain evidence or calculations demonstrating sufficient reduction of noise and vibrations from its own construction or its surroundings (e.g. results of experimental verification of new construction and technological solutions). Before putting these buildings into permanent operation (use), the investor must demonstrate, in cases designated by the health service authorities, on the basis of sound measurements and tests that the provisions of this decree have not been infringed.
Implementation of noise protection
Noise measures
(1) The protection of noise health is carried out (a) by measures to reduce the noise of equipment (noise emission reduction), (b) by measures to protect against noise effects at the places of residence of persons (noise imitation reduction).
(2) The noise of equipment and noise at the places of residence of persons is expressed by the quantities and units listed in the Annex to this Decree (hereinafter referred to as "Annex") and the data specified in the specific regulations (§ 18).
Noise emission limitation
(1) In addition to the general obligation laid down in the previous provisions, organisations producing equipment are obliged to:
(a) monitor the noise characteristics of installations where the sound power level A radiated to the surroundings exceeds 100 dB (P, A) or whose sound level A at the operating site exceeds 80 dB (A), and the noise characteristics of equipment with lower values, if these lower values are set as target values in technical standards, and keep records thereof,
(b) examine the noise data of similar products produced in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and abroad, compare them with their own products and determine, in accordance with the provisions of this Decree, the target noise limits and the deadlines for achieving them, unless the noise limits of such products are laid down in technical standards;
(c) to request the assessment of equipment by a professional department or for a department designated by the workplace or the relevant national service, (3) if the equipment exceeds the noise values referred to in (a) by more than 10 dB (A) and ensures that the measures are taken by them;
(d) request a binding opinion from the Slovak Socialist Republic's chief hygienist (hereinafter referred to as "the chief hygienist") if the equipment to be newly manufactured and operated in the presence of persons exceeds the maximum permissible values of the noise imitation under this Decree; where the equipment referred to in point (c) is concerned, the application shall be accompanied by a prescribed expert assessment;
(e) indicate in the technical information, technical conditions or standards data on the noise of the equipment (sound power level A or noise level A) and on the environment for which the equipment is intended and communicate this information to customers upon request.
(2) The provisions of paragraph 1 (b) to (e) apply mutatis mutandis to organisations which require the importation of equipment.
(1) The maximum permissible noise levels for each type of installation are laid down in national, sectoral and corporate technical standards. 4) Where appropriate, they shall also specify the maximum permissible noise emissions to be achieved within a certain period of time.
(2) The maximum permissible value of the noise of equipment operating at the places of residence of persons shall be determined according to the values of noise imitations specified in this Decree. If it is not technically technically possible for such an installation to meet the conditions laid down in this Decree, a provisional maximum value shall be set in the technical standard for a certain period (usually 2 to 5 years) with the agreement of the chief hygienist.
(3) The maximum permissible noise levels of vehicles approved for use on the road and aircraft are set out in a separate Regulation (5) and Annex (Section V).
Limitation of noise imitations
Technical, organisational and other measures shall be carried out to protect against the adverse effects of noise at the places of residence of persons in order to minimise noise at those places, but in particular to avoid exceeding the maximum permissible noise values established for individual places of residence of persons (Sections II to V of the Annex). In doing so, care should be taken to ensure that persons are exposed to noise for as short a time as possible, or that their stay in a noisy environment is interrupted.
(1) Organisations and citizens are required to ensure that, when equipment is operated or used, the generation and spread of noise that can be avoided, in particular, instructions and other instructions for the operation, operation and maintenance of equipment are followed. This also applies to other activities where noise can occur.
(2) The noise of the expression of persons must be limited to the appropriate place of residence and conditions at all places of residence. This limitation applies especially at night (from 22 to 6 am) and for premises requiring exceptional noise protection (e.g. spa areas and their surroundings, recreational areas and surrounding schools, hospitals and other facilities of institutional care). For spaces requiring exceptional noise protection, national committees may take special measures to ensure the creation or maintenance of the area of silence as part of the care of healthy living conditions.
(3) Musical instruments, radio and television apparatus and other sound reproducing apparatus may only be used in such a way that non-participants are not disturbed.
(4) In public vehicles, the use of sound reproducing devices shall be permitted only if the noise level within the vehicle does not exceed the maximum permissible noise values set out in the Annex (Section V) and if the installation allows them to be switched off if passengers do not wish to be disturbed by the sound being reproduced; this restriction shall not apply to the provision of transport and particularly important and urgent information.
(1) In ensuring the protection of external noise in land-based buildings, zoning measures, in particular urban planning, must preferably apply to measures to protect individual buildings. This applies, in particular, to residential areas of residential units, to the placement of housing structures, civil engineering structures, noise production structures, infrastructure and buildings for motorism, airports, including in terms of their further development. If the project organisation intends to apply only measures to protect individual buildings, it is required to demonstrate at the same time that the possibilities of urban solutions have been exhausted or that their application is less socially advantageous.
(2) When planning, they must be particularly careful to ensure that residential buildings and buildings of health, school, scientific and other social facilities are protected from noise. Territorial planning documentation and planning documentation shall be assessed from the point of view of noise and, where noise can be expected to approach the maximum permissible values, shall be supplemented by a noise study and a proposal for measures to protect against noise.
(3) Organisations shall ensure the design and design preparation, construction and operation of the plant, equipment and other objects from which noise is spread, in particular industrial plants, airports and infrastructure, so as not to exceed the noise levels decided upon in urban design and use of the territory, or to provide for measures to protect construction or outdoor space from noise.
Replacement measures
(1) If, in view of the current state of science and technology, it cannot be temporarily ensured at the workplace that the maximum permissible noise values laid down for jobs in the Annex (Section II) will not be exceeded or if this results from a specific assessment of noise damage (Section 14), the organisation must provide personal protective equipment to protect hearing and control its use. Workers are obliged to use these means at the workplace. 6) Personal protective equipment shall provide a greater noise attenuation than the difference between the actual and maximum permissible noise values.
(2) Workers who are required to carry personal protective equipment against noise continuously throughout their shift must, for health reasons, be provided for necessary breaks in a non-noisy environment (without personal protective equipment); their number per shift and duration shall be determined by the competent authority of the sanitary services, taking into account in particular the microclimatic conditions and noise values at the workplace. If these breaks cannot be ensured by interruption of noisy operation, the noise-protected rest areas must be adapted to rest close to the workplace, where noise values are at least 10 dB lower than the maximum permissible noise values for jobs.
(3) If, according to the current state of science and technology in public long-distance vehicles and self-propelled machinery, it is not possible to ensure that the maximum permissible noise levels are not exceeded, the operator must provide hygienically sound and effective hearing protection aids; passengers in noisy means of long-distance transport (e.g. noisy transport aircraft) must be specifically recommended by the operator to use these aids.
(4) Sanitary services may impose additional alternative measures on organisations to mitigate harmful effects. 7)
Prohibitions on operation, activity and entry
(1) If the replacement measures provided for in Article 11 are not possible or sufficiently effective, equipment which causes the maximum permissible noise levels to be exceeded may not be used, or continue to work or other activity where the maximum permissible noise levels are exceeded.
(2) In an environment where maximum noise levels exceed 115 dB (A), the residence of persons is permitted only under conditions specified by the health service authorities; These conditions shall in particular specify the time of residence of persons or the duration of noise.
(3) In an environment where maximum noise levels measured in dynamic characteristics I (impulse) exceed 140 dB (A), entry is not permitted, even with the use of personal protective equipment.
Preventive medical examinations
(1) In workplaces where the maximum permissible noise levels are exceeded and which for these reasons are intended as risk, only workers who are qualified to do so according to the results of preventive medical examinations may be employed. 8) This applies mutatis mutandis to workplaces which are identified as at risk according to the results of the biological assessment of noise damage (§ 14).
(2) Organisations are required to create factual and organisational conditions for introducing preventive medical examinations of persons working in a noisy environment. Organisations whose personnel are temporarily working under the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 shall equip racing medical equipment with noise investigation equipment, such as for audit examinations of workers.
Biological evaluation of noise damage
For workplace equipment according to the severity of the harmful effects of noise and for their identification as risk, the setting of time limits for periodic inspections, the setting of additional replacement measures (§ 11 (4)) and for checking the effectiveness of noise prevention measures where the accuracy of the measurement methods used is not sufficient, the sanitary services shall carry out a biological assessment of noise damage (pathophysiological correction of noise damage) in cooperation with medical devices. 9)
Implementation of vibration protection
Anti-vibration measures
(1) Organisations are required to take measures to ensure that equipment and structures whose operation and use are accompanied by vibration are not the source of adverse human vibration effects, in particular the transmission of vibrations of frequencies in which the body or parts of the body are resonant. 10) This must be taken into account in particular when selecting the basic frequency of the equipment.
(2) If it is not possible to prevent the transmission of vibration to humans, the organisation must take measures to ensure that vibrations do not exceed the maximum permitted vibration values set out in the Annex (Sections VI to VIII).
(3) In the design and manufacture of equipment, in particular means of transport, and in their operation, the risk of kinetoses (diseases of movement) occurring due to intense vibrations of between 0,1 and 1 Hz should be reduced. Equipment, in particular means of transport, shall not show higher vibrations than those set out in the Annex (Section VIII).
(4) In residential buildings, in institutional care facilities and in civil amenities and in their vicinity, devices with a basic frequency of between 4 and 8 Hz must not be installed.
Protection against cold and moisture
(1) Workers exposed to vibration at work must also be protected against cold and moisture. When working on premises where the conditions of thermal well-being laid down by the relevant hygiene regulations cannot be ensured, workers shall be equipped with warm working clothes and footwear and shall be provided with heaters, including drying rooms. In the case of works where vibration is transmitted on the hand and where the hands could at the same time be cooled or could cause moisture, workers must be equipped with gloves that protect against cold and moisture, and, where the health service authorities so determine, gloves that concurrently restrict vibration transmission.
(2) Mobile machinery which is used in open spaces during a cold period and in which there is constant service shall be equipped with a heated cab. Machinery and tools driven by compressed air shall have an exhaust of refrigerated expanded air in such a way that the air is not directed towards the operator's workers, in particular to avoid causing local cooling by their hands.
(3) Workers who have been exposed to vibration at work and who have worked in a humid and cold state must be able to warm up the whole body after work.
Refunds and preventive medical examinations
Paragraphs 11, 12 (1) and 13 apply mutatis mutandis to replacement measures and preventive medical examinations for workers exposed to adverse vibration effects.
Common, transitional and final provisions
Method of measurement and evaluation
The method of measurement and assessment of noise and vibration shall be laid down in specific regulations. 11)
Authorisation of exemptions
(1) The Chief hygienist may, taking into account the current state of science and technology, allow a time-limited derogation from the provisions of this Decree for equipment manufactured in series or imported. A regional hygienist may allow such a derogation in the context of the negotiation of measures likely to affect living conditions (12) for individual establishments or places of residence of persons.
(2) In addition to technical justification, the request for exemption shall propose technical, organisational or other measures to mitigate harmful effects, where appropriate.
(3) Operators shall ensure that the conditions laid down are complied with when using equipment for which a derogation has been granted.
Penalties for infringement
The position of organisations and citizens who fail to comply with the obligation laid down in this Decree or do not implement the measures imposed under it shall be governed by specific provisions. 13)
Transitional provisions
Equipment and structures supplied and put into service or other use before the date of application of this Order, if they do not comply with the conditions laid down therein, shall be adjusted progressively, depending on the severity of their adverse effects, in the dates specified in the schedules drawn up in accordance with Article 2 (3) and discussed with the health service authorities. 14) Similarly, the installations and buildings to which they were concluded before the entry into force of this Decree of the Economic Treaty and the approved preliminary projects shall be treated in the same way.
Repeal
They shall be deleted:
1. Directive No 32 / 1967 of the Health Regulations (St. 28) on the protection of health against the adverse effects of noise - registered in the amount of 22 / 1967 Coll.;
2. Directive No 33 / 1967 of the Health Regulations (St. 29) on the protection of health against the adverse effects of mechanical vibration - registered in the amount of 32 / 1967 Coll.
Efficacy
This Decree shall take effect on 1 July 1977.
Minister:
Prof. MUDr. Mateíček, DrSc.
1) The annex to the decree is published in the amount of 1-3 / 1977 of the Bulletin of the Ministry of Health of the SSR, which can be obtained in the publishing house Obzor, n.p., Bratislava, ul. Čs. Army No. 29. It can be consulted at the Ministry of Health of the SSR, in the health trade unions KNV and ONV, and in the regional and district hygienists.
2) Technical standards, in particular CSN 28 1304 Measurement and assessment of noise of urban rolling stock, CSN 11 3003 Pumps. Centrifugal and related pumps, CSN 35 0092 The permissible noise of electric rotating machines; Decree No. 90 / 1975 Coll., on the conditions for the operation of vehicles on the road; measures taken by the Federal Ministry of Transport of 5 January 1972, No 6004 / 72- ZO, issuing the Aircraft Noise Code (L 16) - registered in the amount of 16 / 1972 Coll.
3) Act No. 30 / 1968 Coll., on State Testing.
4) Act No. 96 / 1964 Coll., on Technical Standardisation, Decree No. 97 / 1964 Coll., implementing the Act on Technical Standardisation.
5) Decree No. 90 / 1975 Coll., on the conditions of use of vehicles on the road (§ 41); measures taken by the Federal Ministry of Transport of 5 January 1972, No 6004 / 72- ZO), issuing the Aircraft Noise Code (L 16) - registered in the amount of 16 / 1972 Coll.
6) Labour law [§ 135 (2) (b)].
7) Decree No. 45 / 1966 Coll., on the Creation and Protection of Healthy Living Conditions (Sections 36 and 49).
8) Directive No 17 / 1970 of the Ministry of Health of the SSR on the assessment of fitness for work.
9) Procedure for biological evaluation of noise damage related in particular to the detection of loss of hearing acuity, determined by the chief hygienist and published in the Ministry of Health SSR Bulletin.
10) These are in particular frequencies in the area of 4 and 8 Hz for vertical vibrations transmitted to the whole body and frequencies less than 2 Hz for horizontal vibrations transmitted to the whole body.
11) Directive No 1 / 1977 of the Ministry of Health of the SSR on the determination of the method of measuring and evaluating noise and ultrasound in the working environment; Directive No 2 / 1977 of the Ministry of Health of the SSR on the determination of the method of measuring and evaluating noise in housing, civil equipment and outdoor buildings; Directive No 3 / 1977 of the Ministry of Health of the SSR on the determination of the method of measuring and evaluating air traffic noise.
12) Act No. 20 / 1966 Coll., on the care of the health of the people (§ 4).
13) Organisations and their staff will be penalised under the Slovak National Council Act No. 53 / 1975 Coll., on fines for infringements of legislation on the creation and protection of healthy living conditions, or under the Labour Code (full version No. 55 / 1975 Coll.). Workers of organisations, if for this reason they did not impose a fine under SNR Act No. 53 / 1975 Coll. and citizens are penalised, if not for a crime or offence, under Act No. 60 / 1961 Coll., on the tasks of national committees in ensuring socialist order (Sections 12 (2), 19 and 25).
14) Act No. 20 / 1966 Coll. (§ 4 (4)).
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Socialist Republic No. 14 / 1977 Coll., on the protection of health against adverse effects of noise and vibration |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 11.03.1977 |
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| Effective from | 01.07.1977 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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