‘I couldn’t hear my baby crying over the noise of the hairdryer’
Quiet Mark is the international mark of approval award programme from the UK Noise Abatement Society encouraging worldwide companies in the development of noise reduction within the design of everyday machines and appliances
This is a charity led initiative working together with industry to transform our living and working environments to become healthier and less stressed. Being able to control the excessive noise in our surroundings should increase our productivity, our creativity and general enjoyment of life.
This is a charity led initiative working together with industry to transform our living and working environments to become healthier and less stressed. Being able to control the excessive noise in our surroundings should increase our productivity, our creativity and general enjoyment of life.
Quiet Mark has begun the search for a selection of the quietest product designs and solutions in the World to be validated as quieter within their category by our accreditation team at the Association of Noise Consultants.
The Quiet Mark Directory is growing. If you know of more quiet treasures to add to the collection please help share them with everyone by sending them to: emailus@quietmark.com
All the Quiet Mark products shown in the Directory are quietly brilliant and produce a performance on par with their noisier peers.
The Quiet Mark Directory is growing. If you know of more quiet treasures to add to the collection please help share them with everyone by sending them to: emailus@quietmark.com
All the Quiet Mark products shown in the Directory are quietly brilliant and produce a performance on par with their noisier peers.
‘Without the ability to control the noise around them, people become upset, stressed, negative’
The properties of sound are complex and not universally understood. The way sound is measured is complicated and confusing to the man in the street: decibels measure sound power as well as sound pressure, as LAmax, LAeq amongst others, and loudness is measured in Phons and Sones, none of which can be consistent, varying according to context and perception.
Even acoustic experts find it difficult to agree amongst themselves about sound standards and their implications in the context of everyday living.
Even acoustic experts find it difficult to agree amongst themselves about sound standards and their implications in the context of everyday living.
What is clearly understood is that when one is exposed to loud, unexpected noise, or low continual sound vibration, strong physical and emotional responses are triggered, depending on the volume, the length of time and the sound quality and context - we all know what sounds we like and which ones we hate. For this reason Quiet Mark does not mention any specific decibel level for each product, only that they have been compared like for like and that the ones included are quieter than their peers. Explore the Silent Witness pages which offer a variety of expert insight into this intricate and multi-faceted world of sound.
‘Your washing machine no longer has to sound like a train coming through your kitchen’
Nobody knows how loud an appliance is going to be until you plug it in at home. No sales person can tell you the comparison of sound quality between products, and there is precious little information on the noise it makes on the packaging.
What sound a machine makes is starting to become a priority for manufacturers, change is happening and Quiet Mark will help the process.
What sound a machine makes is starting to become a priority for manufacturers, change is happening and Quiet Mark will help the process.
The distinctive purple logo will tell you immediately that this is one of the quietest in category. If consumers demand quieter machines manufacturers will supply them, then quiet will become affordable for all.
By choosing the volume and quality of the sound that surrounds you, bring a more peaceful environment into the home and workplace.
By choosing the volume and quality of the sound that surrounds you, bring a more peaceful environment into the home and workplace.
‘Most appliances are inordinately noisy simply because nobody has ever asked the manufacturers to make them quieter!’
Quiet Mark emerged as a direct response to views expressed on the Noise Abatement Society 24/7 National Noise Help Line asking the question “ why do all our machines have to be so loud!”
Ever since the industrial revolution, it has been assumed that noise is the price we pay for technological progress. Only recently has research uncovered the long term detrimental effects of everyday exposure to unwanted, persistent sound to our health and state of mind.
Ever since the industrial revolution, it has been assumed that noise is the price we pay for technological progress. Only recently has research uncovered the long term detrimental effects of everyday exposure to unwanted, persistent sound to our health and state of mind.
In our busy stressful lives, finding an oasis of peace at home or at work is becoming a necessity.
This is a pioneering initiative by the Noise Abatement Society working with industry to transform our aural environment today and for the generations to come.
This is a pioneering initiative by the Noise Abatement Society working with industry to transform our aural environment today and for the generations to come.