I had an interesting conversation with a company owner in the Tottenham area of London. He has had the HSE in and they told him he would be fine with a cheap noise meter off Amazon and to get some measurements with that. In 30 years of noise assessments this is the first time I’ve ever heard of an HSE inspector coming out with this. The absolute opposite is normally the case.

I feel for employers here as they know they need to get a noise assessment done so start looking into it, and quickly end up in a dark and murky world of Lep,d and TWA and dB(A) and dB(C). It is a wonder they don’t end up sitting in a corner and weeping gently.