Programme (preliminary)

  • 8.00 Registration

  • 8.45-9.00 Welcome address, introduction to the topic and what happened since the first Symposium in Paris

  • 9.00-10.25 Experience with noise emission declarations and labels
    Chairman : Patrick Kurtz, BAuA

    - 1 - Outcome of the NOMAD market surveillance action - Jean Jacques, Consultant; Patrick Kurtz, BAuA
    - 2 - IT Industry - Marco Beltman, INTEL
    - 3 - Blue Angel - Christian Fabris, UBA
    - 4 - Machinery noise limits and incentives for noise reduction - Michael Dittrich,TNO
    - 5 - Household appliances, experience with noise emission declarations and labels - Gerhard Fuchs, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Discussion Period

  • 10.45-11.15 Coffee break

  • 11.15-12.40 Is the development and promotion of low noise products of any advantage for manufacturers?
    Chairman : Jean Tourret, Ince-Europe

    - 1 Powerful and quiet garden machinery - Fabian Pöhler, Stihl
    - 2 US industry experience - George Maling, INCE, Robert Hellweg, HELLWEG ACOUSTICS
    - 3 Motivation, classical methods, and novel approaches - Joachim Bös, TU Darmstadt
    - 4 Lawn Mowers - Xavier Carniel, CETIM
    Discussion Period

  • 12.40-13.30 Lunch

  • 13.30-14.40 Key elements allowing to "Buy quiet"
    - 1 Legal requirements and standards - Patrick Kurtz, BAuA; Jean Jacques, Consultant
    - 2 Specifications and operating conditions - Jeff Schmitt, VIACOUSTICS
    - 3 Comparison of products - Robert Hellweg, HELLWEG ACOUSTICS; Patrick Kurtz, BAuA
    Discussion Period

  • 14.40-15.20 Coffee break

  • 15.20-16.30 Advantages of product noise information
    Chairman : Robert Hellweg, HELLWEG ACOUSTICS

    - 1 Encouraging purchasers of work equipment to Buy Quiet - Paul Brereton, HSE
    - 2 Noise exposure forecast at work places - Wolfgang Probst, DATAKUSTIK
    - 3 Incentives for purchasers and manufacturers - Christopher Page; Ray Fischer, NOISE CONTROL ENGINEERING
    Discussion Period

  • 16.30-17.30 How to improve "Buy quiet" (round table discussion)
    Chairman: Marco Beltman, INTEL
    Topics:
    - Financial benefit for machine manufacturers and employers (users of quieter machines),
    - Arguments and means to encourage purchasers to Buy-Quiet,
    - Actions

  • 17.45 Closure of the symposium

Conference Secretary: Carla Kniewel - BAUA - Unit Physical Agents - Friedrich Henkel Weg 1-25 - 44149 Dortmund - Phone +49 231 9071-2461 - E-Mail: kniewel.carla@baua.bund.de