September 3, 2008

Sound-related legislation in Finland

Filed under: Miscellaneous, Teaching - meaningfulnoise @ 7:30 am

I was gathering material on sound-related legislation for a course I’m teaching in Sonic Interaction Design. I might as well document it here, too. The list contains Finnish legislation (hence, in Finnish) concerning sound in some form - who gets to make sound, when and where… Mostly, what this legislation does:

  • Defines requirements for warning sound (heavy machinery, emergency vehicles) and their maintenance
  • Establishes levels for determining what is hazardous noise (links into working conditions, worker’s rights)
  • Defines building requirements for noise control
  • Defines environmental noise control requirements
  • Gives some (rather vague) guidelines on the individual person’s rights to produce sound (public speaking, busking)

The list so far:

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