NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

meaning those who work in the toll roads,
transit police, people who work cutting grass
with the trimmers. In the roads near the
metropolitan area those people are exposed to
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both risks, the noise and also carbon monoxide.
Thus this is a topic that we are studying in
different proposals and different projects.
And we believe that it is of great
transcendence for our island.
Problems of the built environment as it is
called in English and also the problem of noise
is a problem that affects us all. When we talk
about the schools for example and noise
standards of the schools in order that the
intelligibility of the teacher’s voice can be
the appropriate one. The recommended levels in
the literature are significant levels inferior
to the levels that we can have here in the
existing environmental noise. And particular
material in the environment because of the
emissions of the vehicles moving with diesel
and other emissions of particular materials and
otototoxic chemicals.
We also understand that it is very