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Weekly personal noise exposure
Domain: Health and safety at work => Risk factors => Noise
Grammatical category
Noun phrase
Grammar notes
Uncountable
Definition
Level of weekly personal noise exposure (LEP, w) taking account of the level of noise and the duration of exposure and covering all noise. This value, which corresponds to defined in international standard ISO 1999: 1990 clause 3.6 (note 2) for a nominal week of five working days, is expressed in decibels.
Definition source
Reg. 2 of The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
European legislation
Directives 89/391/EEC, 80/1107/EEC, 82/605/EEC, 83/477/EEC, 86/188/EEC, 88/642/EEC, 2003/10/EC
British legislation
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
Variants
LEP, w
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