Noise specialist Richard Willson was in action again at this year's Glastonbury festival - with a mission to protect staff from excessive noise. Richard, noise at work consultant for TESS, The Event Safety Shop, is one of the UK's most experienced festival noise specialists, having also worked at the Latitude, the Leeds and Reading festivals, Festival Republic and BBC events. His task at this year's Glastonbury: to ensure the wellbeing of festival employees and concession staff under the Noise at Work Regulations and ensure noise limits were adhered to during the five days of the event. One of his biggest challenges was the sheer size of Glastonbury. Covering some 900 acres, it is the largest green field festival in the world and one that attracts 200,000 festival goers and has approximately 60,000 staff on site. To assist him, he used 10 doseBadge noise dosimeters and an Optimus Red sound level meter.
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