CEL-450 Integrating Octave Band Digital Sound Level Meter

Passengers using ferries, cruise ships and marina facilities at the Port of Dover, together with staff working at the terminals and residents living close by, are benefiting from the port authority’s health, safety and environmental policies designed to reduce noise pollution.

To help them with the task, the Health and Safety and Environmental departments are using a CEL-450 noise measurement meter from Casella CEL.

The instrument, which has a single measurement range of 140dB to effectively remove range adjustment measurement errors, is being used by Steve Pinfold, assistant port safety officer, to monitor noise levels from ships entering and leaving the port, trucks and other traffic arriving and departing, inside and outside workshops, and from the ongoing development works that have become a feature at Dover as the port maintains its position as the busiest roll-on-roll-off ferry terminal in Europe.

Steve Pinfold comments: “We monitor noise and air quality in partnership with the local authorities. This equipment gives us the opportunity to compile in-depth records in-house that will be extremely useful in our discussions with customers and the many companies that operate within the port, to help ensure the welfare and safety of everyone at the port. “

“The fact that the 450 is a hand held instrument enables us to take sound readings anywhere in the port – a most useful asset for us.”

The CEL-450, which features a simple point and shoot operation with an easy-to-use menu structure, produces a time history of the noise levels at a selectable time interval down to 10millisecond for speedy frequency analysis.