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This research work was aimed to assess exposure condition and the safety situation in stone crushing units. Sound level was measured at 6 stone crushing plant. A small questionnaire survey performed on the surveyed area. For the questionnaire survey the interviewees were divided into five categories. They are worker (60), teacher (5), Student (30), Shop-keeper (40) and Tourist (50) out of 185 interviewees. Exposure level of sound was not suitable from health hazard point of view. From this study the whole scenario was dangerous for human health. It was clear the maximum noise level 102 dBA, 100dBA & 99dBA at nearest point from crushing machine. It also clear that the noise level was decreasing with increasing distance from crushing point source. It was observed from this study the safe distance from the permissible sound level view of point was 24 ft at day time. The acceptable sound limit set by Department of Environments is 60 dBA at mixed area. This value exceeds in every stone crushing plant at Jaflong area.
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A study on noise pollution of stone crusher machine at Jaflong, Sylhet
SZ Farzana1, AH Nury2*, B Biswas1 and A Das1
1Department of Civil Engineering, Leading University, Sylhet, Bangladesh
2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh
Corresponding e-mail: hasancee@yahoo.com
Abstract
This research work was aimed to assess exposure condition and the safety situation in stone crushing units. Sound level was measured at 6 stone
crushing plant. A small questionnaire survey performed on the surveyed area. For the questionnaire survey the interviewees were divided into five
categories. They are worker (60), teacher (5), Student (30), Shop-keeper (40) and Tourist (50) out of 185 interviewees. Exposure level of sound was
not suitable from health hazard point of view. From this study the whole scenario was dangerous for human health. It was clear the maximum noise
level 102 dBA, 100dBA & 99dBA at nearest point from crushing machine. It also clear that the noise level was decreasing with increasing distance
from crushing point source. It was observed from this study the safe distance from the permissible sound level view of point was 24 ft at day time.
The acceptable sound limit set by Department of Environments is 60 dBA at mixed area. This value exceeds in every stone crushing plant at
Jaflong area.
INTRODUCTION
Noise is generated from sound. When sound went on higher
and higher pitches with loudness that human ear cannot persists,
becomes unwanted and termed as noise.
The details of work specification and activities at a stone
crushing plant that breaks large stones into smaller pieces by
using machines or manually which produces noise [2].
Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is machine irreversible
sensor ineural hearing loss associated with exposure to high
levels of excessive noise. This study aims to assess the noise
levels and the awareness of the effects of noise on health
among stone crushing industry workers. There are laws and
legislation set by the department of environment (DOE),
Bangladesh. Understanding various sound properties will help
to realize the study.
Table 1. Satisfactory Noise Level [3]
Area Category
Night Time
Day Time
Silent zones (Hospitals, Old homes etc.)
40 dB
50 dB
Residential areas
45 dB
55 dB
Commercial areas
60 dB
70 dB
Mixed areas
50 dB
60 dB
Industrial areas
70 dB
75 dB
Each type of pollution has a more or less bad impact on
human life. Noise in big cities is considered by the World
Health Organization to be the third most hazardous type of
pollution, right after air and water pollution [2]. So threats from
noise pollution on human health cannot be ignored anymore.
Noise effects on human slowly and finally it can causes
permanent deafness, continuous exposure can initiate people to
several critical diseases or sudden noise can cause to death. If
noise level is above 160dB, it results in rupture of tympanic
membrane and ultimate hearing loss. From laboratory
experiments there is overwhelming evidence that the presence
of uncontrollable noise can significantly impair cognitive
performances of adults. Noise is able to induce learned
helplessness, increase arousal, alter the choice of task strategy,
and decrease attention to the task [3].
Sharmin (2009) [4] carried out a study on noise pollution in
vulnerable sites of Sylhet city. In this study, noise levels of
major commercial areas, major hospital areas, major school and
college of major location in Sylhet city have been measured,
from 9am to 8 pm during working days with the help of a sound
level meter. It is observed that average highest noise level of
intersection point is around 97 dBA at Amborkhana. The
highest TNI is found in Amborkhana (101.2 dBA). The average
noise level of indoor hospital is around 76 decibel and that in
indoor of school is 78 dBA. Unplanned urbanization and higher
population is claimed to be the cause of such situation [14].
Shilpi Rani Basak (2007) [5] Assessed noise pollution in
vulnerable hospital sites of Sylhet city.In this study, noise
levels of major hospital areas of Sylhet city have been
measured from 8 am to 8 pm during working days. She found
that the noise levels in hospital areas are approximately 75 dBA.
Even in commercial areas some hospitals are located without
any special arrangement for reduction of noise level. 43%
hospitals are located near the road side, 55% are located in
mixed area. In residential areas noise level is found lay between
70 to 73 dBA. Unplanned urbanization is remarked as the main
cause of such situation. The study suggested safe distance for
vulnerable institutions should be 100 meter away from the
road.
Farhana hussain (2007) studied traffic contribution to noise
and air pollution in Sylhet. They found that heavy traffic causes
serious congestion in every point and is responsible for noise
and air pollution. At Amborkhana, actual roadway capacity was
7488 pcu where theoretical roadway capacity was 2500 pcu.
Noise levels of nine intersection point are observed to exceed
allowable limit.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
A. Study Area
In this study survey area is selected Balla ghat, Jaflong under
Goianghat upazilla. Jaflong is the north-east zone of
Bangladesh. Latitude of Jaflong is +25°10´25.90´´ and altitude
is +92°0´45.20´´. Jaflong is a tourism area, there are about few
thousand people visit regularly from whole Bangladesh.
Sometimes many foreigners also visit this area. Above these
reason this area should be environmentally friendly and
peaceful for the tourist. Surveyed stone crushing plant have
been selected randomly. This is clear to map of sample
collection area (Figure 1). Survey works have been conducted
on Shimonto stone crusher Ltd, R.M. stone crusher, Arafat
stone crusher, Rumana stone crusher, Capital stone crusher,
Proma stone crusher.
Fig. 1. Study area
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B. Sound measurement
All the measurements were made manually on ‘A-weighting’
scale and the sound level meter was switched to fast response
position. Sound level has been measured every 5 feet distance
from source point of noise (Stone crushing plant). All values of
these measurements have been recorded as the sound level of
the corresponding location at a specific time. This research is
done by using primary data and the data is collected with the
help Integrating Sound Level Meter Lutron SL-4010. A small
scale questionnaire survey is conducted to find out health effect
and people awareness. Noise level is measured in each of the
sampling points in working days during 7 am to 6 pm
C. Questionnaire survey
A small scale questionnaire survey is conducted on people of
sampling point area. To perform this survey the interviews are
divided in to five categories, namely Worker, Teacher, Students,
Shopkeeper and Tourist. They are not discriminate on basis of
sampling area (Bollaghat, Jaflong). They were asked a few
question and their answers were recorded in survey documents.
The questions asked are a) Do you feel annoyed by the sound
around you? b) Do you feel any physical disturbance due to
noise? c) Do you feel any psychological disturbance due to
noise? d) Do you know such noise level can lead to deafness?
e) Do you know what can be done to control noise level?
Finally the percentage of people awareness is calculated from
the positive answer of question a, d and e.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
It’s clear from figure 2 and 3 the maximum noise level at
shrimonto and R.M. stone crusher are 91 dBA and 102 dBA
respectively at nearest point from crushing machine. It also
clears from the figures that the noise level is decreasing with
increasing distance from crushing point source. Maximum
noise level at Arafat stone crusher, Rumana stone crusher,
Capital stone crusher and Proma stone crusher were found 100
dBA, 88 dBA, 95 dBA and 98 dBA respectively at nearest
point from crushing machine It is observed from the figure 2
and 3 the safe distance from the permissible sound level view
of point is 26 and 36 ft at day time respectively.
A small scale questionnaire survey was done to divulge
health effects on human and to determine public awareness
about noise pollution in both of the city. Around 185 people are
interviewed to conduct this part of the study.
Fig. 2. Variation of noise level with distance (ft)
at Shimanto stone crusher
Interviewees are divided into five categories. They are
worker (60), teacher (5), Student (30), shop-keeper (40) and
tourist (50). There is no division on which city they belong to.
Almost 80% of workers feel disturbed by the stone crushing
machine created noise, 15% of them do not feel disturb and 5%
of said they feel disturbed sometimes. 95% teachers feel
annoyed by the stone crushing machine created noise around
them among teachers 2% do not feel disturb and feel disturbed
sometimes 3%.90% students are disturbed by the stone
crushing machine created noise 8% of them do not feel disturb
and rest 2 % feel disturbed sometimes.85 % of shopkeepers feel
disturbed by stone crushing machine created noise. Among
them only 5% do not feel disturb and 10 % feel disturbed
sometimes.96% tourists feel disturbed by the noisy
environment in this tourist area. 2% of them do not feel disturb
and rest 2% said they feel disturbed sometimes.
Fig. 3: Variation of noise level with distance (ft) at R.M. stone crusher
Around 90% of workers complained headache, 95% worker
sleep interference and 88% of them are said about hearing
deficiency and others said 20%. Almost 95% teachers suffered
headache, 92% of them have sleep interference and hearing
deficiency is felt by 90% of them and others said 35%. 93%
students complained headache, 95% student complained sleep
interference and 85% felt hearing deficiency others said 23%.
96% shopkeepers have headache, 92% of them have sleep
interference, 88% of them feel hearing deficiency and others said
30%. 96% tourists have spoken about headache, 95% have sleep
interference, 90% of them have felt hearing deficiency and other
said 41%. The other physiological problem includes increase of
blood pressure during high noise. Increase of cardio-vascular
disease, increase of pulse arte, tinnitus (ringing inside ear).
Around 96% of workers suffering from irritation, 98%
worker undergone attention deficiency, 80% of them are said
they have bad temperature and other 20%. Almost 95%
teachers feel irritated, 99% of them experiences attention
deficiency and 92% have bad temperament during high level of
sound and other 20%. About 95% of students suffer from
irritated 96% of them are undergone attention deficiency and
90% student said they have bad temperament if they are
subjected to high level of sound and other 35%. About 92%
shopkeepers feel irritated, 90% face attention deficiency. 87 %
of them admit they become bad tempered during high level of
sound and other 26%. About 92% tourists are irritated, 98% of
them have felt hearing deficiency and 95% possess ill
temperature and other said 35%.
Fig. 4. Evaluation of people awareness of noise level
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From figure 4 in spite of their profession only 15% worker
are aware of bad effect and 80% remains ignores. About 5%
they are still in confusion. About 60% teachers are concerned
about the hazard that such noise level poses threat. But 15%
teachers are remains unaware of it and more 25% of them are
perplexes. Only 10% of students answered positive about the
fact, 78% of them are uninformed about the ultimate result of
being exposed to such noise level, 12% students are confused
of the question. Just 50 % shopkeepers are informed that deafness
can cause everlasting hearing impairment. 40 % admitted they
do not know about it and 10 % of them are confused. About 70
% tourists answered positive about the fact, 15% of them are
uniformed about the ultimate result of being exposed to such
noise level, 15 % tourist are confused of the question.
88% workers propose to improve machine use, 90% suggest
to shift the machine safe area, 50% said other methods. 90%
teachers suggest improve machine use, 95% recommended to
shift the machine safe area, 40 % advised many other
alternative solution. 90% students propose to improve machine
use, 85% of them suggest shifting the machine safe area. 25 %
advised many other alternative solutions. 70% service-holders
suggest improve machine use, 92% of them suggest shifting the
machine safe area. 40 % advised many other alternative
possible solutions. About 96 % tourists raise their voice for
modify and improved machine used, 93% of them suggest to
shift the machine safe area. 20 % said improve working
condition, confined area and many other alternative possible
solutions.
Fig. 5. Awareness of people
From the figure 5 it is seen that percentage of awareness of
worker, teacher, student, shopkeeper and tourist is 17%, 23%,
17%, 19% and 24% respectively. It is understood that the
awareness among people is not in satisfactory level. People are
facing the problem but do not have adequate idea of what such
noise can charge on them.
CONCLUSION
The study reveals the existing noise pollution status of stone
crushing plant at Jaflong Bollah Ghat area, Goainghat, Sylhet.
The acceptable noise level set by Department of environment
(DOE), Bangladesh exceeds in every stone crushing plant at
Jaflong area. During the observation maximum noise level
from R.M. stone crusher was found 102 dBA and minimum
noise level from Rumana stone crusher was found 88 dBA. The
permissible noise level at mixed area set by DOE is 60 dBA
was found lowest distance 24 feet from crushing plant Rumana
stone crusher and workers stay there more than 8 hours in a day.
Maximum stone crushing plant are situated within 500 feet
from commercial/ residential area. There is a number of people
especially tourist complained headache. Stone crushing plant
should be installed at safe distance from residential/commercial
area. Personal protective equipment should be used properly
and regularly too.
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