But noise is everywhere and as such it can have an even broader impact on our lives. Your awareness of these issues will enrich your understanding of the noise problem and perhaps provide you additional ideas and insight to assist in your efforts to educate and motivate your noise-exposed workforce. The tally sheet on environmental noise in our lives does not look promising. Most hotel doormen don t use whistles anymore.
Noise comes from the Latin word nausea, originally meaning seasickness.
Which is not surprising, because noise makes us sick. Noise can raise blood pressure, change blood chemistry, and make us anxious, tired, and distracted. In addition, noise also affects whole communities. Noise diminishes our sense of civility, numbs compassion, and breeds aggression and hostility. Noise disturbs our sense of place.