Cirrus instruments supported the noise monitoring of this years Notting Hill Carnival, London. Soundguard Acoustics Ltd were contracted to undertake the first Control of Noise at Work risk assessment on behalf of London Notting Hill Carnival Ltd (LNHCL).

Soundguard Acoustics Ltd used 40 Cirrus CR:110A Dosebadges, 5 RC:110A Dosebadge readers, and 5 Cirrus Type 1 integrating Sound Level Meters to undertake the assessment over Carnival weekend. Rob Shaddick is the Director of Soundguard Acoustics Ltd and reports that: ‘Soundguard already uses Cirrus equipment and we were confident in hiring further Cirrus equipment to fulfil this contract, Cirrus equipment has always been reliable and benefits from simplicity in operation, something that we felt to be important in the chaos of carnival!

We would like to thank TAWSA Health and Safety Ltd who helped with the provision of consultancy services during the Notting Hill weekend and Tawsa ltd's sales devision Safety Supplies Direct for supplying us with Cirrus equipment for the event. Over £55,000 worth of equipment was required for the 600 plus noise mesurements taken over the two day event.