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EH/1 - Acoustics

Sector: Sustainability

Categories: Measurement. Fluid flow. General | Protective equipment. Head | Electroacoustics | Noise. Human beings | Domestic and commercial equipment. Miscellaneous | Measurement. Vibration and shock | Noise. Machines and equipment | IT terminal and other peripheral equipment | Earth-moving machinery | Steels. Pipes and tubes | Ventilation and air-conditioning | Seagoing vessels | External sewage systems | Non-metalliferous minerals | Radiation protection | Equipment. Winter sports | Drawing equipment | Industrial gases | Railway engineering. General | Hand-operated tools | Barrels. Drums. Canisters | Fire-resistance. Building materials and elements | Office machines | Metrology and measurement. | Belt drives. Components | Acoustics. Sound insulation | Domestic and commercial equipment. Entertainment. Sports | Road vehicles. General | Inland navigation vessels | Aids. Deaf and hearing impaired people | Acoustics. Other | Measurement. Radiation | Ventilators. Fans. Air-conditioners | Particle size analysis. Sieving | Metalliferous minerals. Other | Packaging and distribution | Water supply | Machine tool systems. General | Aircraft and space vehicles. General | Installations in buildings. General | Metrology and measurement. General | Measuring instruments | Essential oils | Insulating materials. Plastics and rubber | Measurement. Acoustics. General | Quantities and units | Medical equipment. General | Testing. Non-destructive | Writing and transliteration | Rotating machinery. General | Metalliferous metals | Noise. Transport | Document imaging applications | Mica based materials | Anaesthetic, respiratory and reanimation equipment | Equipment. Forestry | Generalities. Terminology. Standardization. Documentation.

Overview: Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, is responsible for the UK input into ISO/TC43, ISO/TC43/SC1 and CEN/TC211 for standardisation in the field of Acoustics. Individual work items are the responsibility of the UK sub-committees EH/1/1 to EH/1/6.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (6)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

Draft Decision C1/2023 - Adoption of NWI EN ISO 21388-2 Acoustics -- Tele Hearing Aid Fitting Management -- Part 2: Tele-services as part of hearing aid fitting management (tHAFM)

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Measurement and Science | Metrology and measurement | Acoustics. Other | Healthcare | Aids. Disabled persons | Aids. Deaf and hearing impaired people

Proposal begins : 2023-02-17
Proposal
BS ISO 9613-2:2024/Amd 1 Acoustics — Attenuation of sound during propagation outdoors. Part 2: Engineering method for the prediction of sound pressure levels outdoors - Amendment 1

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2026-02-27
Drafting
BS ISO 4869-7 Acoustics — Hearing protectors —. Part 7: Method to measure the response of hearing protectors with high-level impulsive noise on an acoustic test fixture

Categories: Protective equipment. Head

Drafting begins : 2025-10-01
Drafting
BS ISO 226 Acoustics -- Normal equal-loudness-level contours

Categories: Noise. Human beings

Comment resolution begins : 2020-12-21
Comment resolution
BS ISO 13473-7 Characterization of pavement texture using surface profiles. Part 7: Concepts of macro- and megatexture measurement; classification, requirements and verification of profilometers

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2026-08-11
Drafting
BS EN ISO 7235 Acoustics — Laboratory measurement procedures for ducted silencers and air-terminal units — Insertion loss, flow noise and total pressure loss

Categories: Unclassified documents

Proposal begins :
Proposal
Published (3)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PD ISO/TR 25417:2007 Acoustics. Definitions of basic quantities and terms

Categories: Metrology and measurement. | Measurement. Acoustics. General

Published standard begins : 2008-02-21
Published standard
BS EN ISO 8253-2:2009 Acoustics. Audiometric test methods. Sound field audiometry with pure-tone and narrow-band test signals

Categories: Noise. Human beings | Electroacoustics

Published standard begins : 2010-02-11
Published standard
BS EN ISO 1683:2015 Acoustics. Preferred reference values for acoustical and vibratory levels

Categories: Measurement. Acoustics. General

Published standard begins : 2015-05-21
Published standard
Withdrawn (11)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PD ISO/PAS 20065:2016 Acoustics. Objective method for assessing the audibility of tones in noise. Engineering method

Categories: Measurement. Acoustics. General

Withdrawn begins : 2023-09-22
Withdrawn
BS ISO 6394:1998 Acoustics. Measurement at the operator's position of noise emitted by earth-moving machinery. Stationary test conditions

Categories: Noise. Machines and equipment | Earth-moving machinery

Withdrawn begins : 2009-03-17
Withdrawn
BS ISO 6393:1998 Acoustics. Measurement of exterior noise emitted by earth-moving machinery. Stationary test conditions

Categories: Noise. Machines and equipment | Earth-moving machinery

Withdrawn begins : 2009-03-17
Withdrawn
BS ISO 26101:2017 Acoustics. Test methods for the qualification of free-field environments

Categories: Measurement. Acoustics. General

Withdrawn begins : 2024-06-13
Withdrawn
BS ISO 26101:2012 Acoustics. Test methods for the qualification of free-field environments

Categories: Measurement. Acoustics. General

Withdrawn begins : 2017-07-06
Withdrawn
BS ISO 12124:2001 Acoustics. Procedures for the measurement of real-ear acoustical characteristics of hearing aids

Categories: Aids. Deaf and hearing impaired people | Electroacoustics

Withdrawn begins : 2016-02-29
Withdrawn
BS ISO 10302-1:2011 Acoustics. Measurement of airborne noise emitted and structure-borne vibration induced by small air-moving devices. Airborne noise measurement

Categories: Noise. Machines and equipment | Ventilators. Fans. Air-conditioners

Withdrawn begins : 2024-02-06
Withdrawn
BS EN ISO 8253-3:2012 Acoustics. Audiometric test methods. Speech audiometry

Categories: Noise. Human beings

Withdrawn begins : 2022-03-30
Withdrawn
BS EN ISO 80000-8:2007 Quantities and units. Acoustics

Categories: Quantities and units

Withdrawn begins : 2009-04-01
Withdrawn
BS EN ISO 2922:2000+A1:2013 Acoustics. Measurement of airborne sound emitted by vessels on inland waterways and harbours

Categories: Noise. Transport

Withdrawn begins : 2021-01-05
Withdrawn