SylvestreW
Mechanical
Someone from another group in my company asked to borrow a sound level meter (for the techies, a B&K type-1 logging SLM). I didn't have a problem letting them use it and enquired as to what the project was.
The person was going to do some mould sampling (their speciality) and as part of the inspection, was asked to take sound levels in the room. The report was going to a client.
Now, the person who asked to borrow the SLM knows nothing about noise (to the point he asked what decibels were). I mentioned that maybe someone should join him and take the measurements instead, since this information was going to form part of a report, and released to the public, and there's a risk involved in someone just putting numbers down without understanding what they mean.
(again, for the techies, NC or RC would be more appropriate here).
The response was "how hard is it to just measure levels and say 'the measured level in the room is ...'".
What do you say to that?
I was a bit concerned so enquired more about why the client wanted noise levels, what was to be measured etc etc but it turns out that the guy didn't know any of those details. His PM prepared the quote and simply instructed him to go out and measure. The PM was not available at all.
If it were something internal, I'd care less but seeing as we are in safety consulting, and clients hire us for our "expertise", should I have done more?
I just explained as best I could to the person what to measure (average Leq for 30 sec) and put some disclaimers in the report.
The person was going to do some mould sampling (their speciality) and as part of the inspection, was asked to take sound levels in the room. The report was going to a client.
Now, the person who asked to borrow the SLM knows nothing about noise (to the point he asked what decibels were). I mentioned that maybe someone should join him and take the measurements instead, since this information was going to form part of a report, and released to the public, and there's a risk involved in someone just putting numbers down without understanding what they mean.
(again, for the techies, NC or RC would be more appropriate here).
The response was "how hard is it to just measure levels and say 'the measured level in the room is ...'".
What do you say to that?
I was a bit concerned so enquired more about why the client wanted noise levels, what was to be measured etc etc but it turns out that the guy didn't know any of those details. His PM prepared the quote and simply instructed him to go out and measure. The PM was not available at all.
If it were something internal, I'd care less but seeing as we are in safety consulting, and clients hire us for our "expertise", should I have done more?
I just explained as best I could to the person what to measure (average Leq for 30 sec) and put some disclaimers in the report.