Occupational noise control in Australia - Its policy and management
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Abstract
Noise has long been recognized as one o f the priority occupational hazards in Australia.Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is probably the most prevalent occupational disease in Australian industries and it is the major cause o f deafness in Australia.All six Australian States, the two Territories and the Commonwealth Government have their own legislation to manage occupational noise.Whilst these are not all the same they are similar and nearly all States and Territories have now adopted the Australian National Occupational Noise Standard into their legislation.The government structures and agencies that administer occupational noise legislation are also different in the different States and Territories.In this paper occupational noise legislation in the Commonwealth jurisdiction and in all Australian States and Territories will be summarized.Brief comparisons with legislation in American and European countries will be made.The government structure and relevant legislation and policies for occupational noise management in Western Australia will be explained.The role o f WorkSafe Western Australia in enforcing the legislation and assisting workplaces to comply with it will be discussed. s o m m a ir eLe bruit est depuis longtemps reconnu comme étant l 'un des principaux dangers dans le milieu professionnel en Australie.La perte auditive due aux nuissances sonores est, probablement, la maladie professionnelle la plus répandue dans les industries australiennes et est considérée comme étant la cause principale de surdité en Australie.Les six états composant l 'Australie, les deux territoires et le gouvernement du Commonwealth ont chacun leur propre législation pour contrôler le bruit dans le milieu professionnel.Même si ces législations ne sont pas toutes identiques, elles présentent des similitudes et presque tous les états et territoires ont jusqu'à présent adopté dans leurs législations les normes nationales australiennes concernant les nuisances sonores dans le milieu professionnel.Par ailleurs, chaque état et territoire est doté de structures et d 'agences gouvernementales propres pour lutter contre le bruit au travail.Cet article résumera les législations appliquées en matière de bruits dans la juridiction du Commonwealth ainsi que dans tous les états et territoires australiens.De brèves comparaisons avec les législations américaines et européennes seront faites.Des explications seront apportées concernant la structure gouvernementale, la législation et les politiques appropriées mises en place pour la gestion du bruit dans le milieu professionnel en Australie Occidentale.Le rôle que joue l 'organisme "WorkSafe Western Australia" dans le renforcement de la législation et dans l 'aide apportée sur les lieux de travail, pour faire respecter les lois, sera examiné en détail.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".