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5.5.2. Impacts of noise


Annoyance: It creates annoyance to the receptors due to sound level fluctuations. The a-periodic sound due to its irregular occurrences causes displeasure to hearing and causes annoyance.

Physiological effects: The physiological features like breathing amplitude, blood pressure, heart-beat rate, pulse rate, blood cholesterol are affected.

Loss of hearing: Long exposure to high sound levels cause loss of hearing. This is mostly unnoticed, but has an adverse impact on hearing function.

Human performance: The working performance of workers/human will be affected as it distracts the concentration.

Nervous system: It causes pain, ringing in the ears, feeling of tiredness, thereby effecting the functioning of human system.

Sleeplessness: It affects the sleeping there by inducing people to become restless and loose concentration and presence of mind during their activities

Damage to material: The buildings and materials may get damaged by exposure to infrasonic / ultrasonic waves and even get collapsed.