Department of Navigation, Faculty of Navigation, Gdynia Maritime University, 81-345 Gdynia, Poland.
Department of Fundamentals of Construction of Transport Equipment, Faculty of Transport, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-662 Warszawa, Poland.
Sensors (Basel). 2021 Mar 8;21(5):1898. doi: 10.3390/s21051898.
The purpose and scope of this paper are to provide guidance of the potential impacts of being subjected to high level noise recorded on 1st generation (30 years old) floating storage and offloading vessels (FSO) in sector offshore. The international community recognizes that vibroacoustic impacts from commercial ships may have negative consequences for both humans (worker's) and marine life, especially marine mammals. As regards the effect of noise on human health, there are legal requirements imposing the noise exposure control on personnel working on ships. The acceptable noise exposure standards are established in European Union Directive 2003/10/EC (2003), the NOPSEMA Regulation (2006), the Maritime Labor Convention (MLC) guidelines (2006), and the recommendations of the International Maritime Organization IMO contained, e.g., IMO MEPC.1/Circ.833 (2014). These regulations inform employers and employees what they must do to effectively protect both the marine environment and the health and life safety of workers employed in the maritime industry offshore. This study also presents an analysis of the results of noise measurements carried out on exemplary 1st generation FSO units.
本文的目的和范围是提供有关在近海区域内第一代（30 年）浮式储存和卸载船（FSO）上记录的高强度噪声可能产生的潜在影响的指导。国际社会认识到商业船舶的振动和声学影响可能对人类（工人）和海洋生物，尤其是海洋哺乳动物产生负面影响。关于噪声对人类健康的影响，有法律要求对在船舶上工作的人员进行噪声暴露控制。可接受的噪声暴露标准在欧盟指令 2003/10/EC（2003 年）、NOPSEMA 法规（2006 年）、海事劳工公约（MLC）指南（2006 年）和国际海事组织 IMO 的建议中规定，例如 IMO MEPC.1/Circ.833（2014 年）。这些法规告知雇主和员工，他们必须采取哪些措施来有效保护海洋环境以及在海上工业中从事工作的工人的健康和生命安全。本研究还分析了在典型第一代 FSO 单元上进行的噪声测量结果。
