@article {Wolff:2016:0736-2935:5498,
title = "Airborne ultrasound at german workplaces",
journal = "INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings",
parent_itemid = "infobike://ince/incecp",
publishercode ="ince",
year = "2016",
volume = "253",
number = "3",
publication date ="2016-08-21T00:00:00",
pages = "5498-5502",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0736-2935",
url = "https://ince.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/ince/incecp/2016/00000253/00000003/art00080",
author = "Wolff, Andrea",
abstract = "The presence of ultrasound technology at german workplaces has been continuously rising over the last decades. Being energy-efficient and low in costs, for example welding techniques using ultrasound are nowadays well-established processing procedures.To include this new kind of noise
exposure into the german occupational health and safety, the VDI-guideline 3766 "Ultrasound - Work place - Measurement, assessment, judgement and reduction" was published in September 2012. The guideline describes a specific procedure how to measure, assess and rate exposure to sound with
shares of airborne ultrasound.Unfortunately, this guideline does not provide answers to all important questions rising in the context of airborne ultrasound exposure at the workplace. For example no assessment criteria exist for preventing potential damage, caused by airborne ultrasound frequencies,
to the human ear at frequencies above 8 kHz - for the reason, that no comprehensive and authoritative studies are available. Also, the guiding values provided in the german guidelines VDI 3766 and VDI 2058-2 are incomplete. From an occupational health and safety point of view, these gaps have
to be closed urgently. The guideline VDI 3766 is presented and potential problems and approaches to solve them are being discussed.",
}