Noise in an urban area has always been a global issue. This study focuses on industrial noise (sawmill) in Ibadan metropolis. The study examined the level of noise in purposively selected 4 sawmills and ambient environment. 87 respondents including the operators were interviewed on their level of knowledge of health effect of human exposure tonoise. Simple descriptive statistics (percentage, mean, and standard deviation) were used to analyse the data. The resultrevealed that the level of knowledge of the people on health effect of human exposure to noise is that weighted mean is 1.74 which indicated a low knowledge based on the decision rule. The operators of the sawmills also denied knowledge of National Environmental Standard and Regulation Enforcement Agency (NESREA) as the legal Authority which control noise level in Nigeria. Therefore, the NESREA and Ministry of Environment should intensity efforts to jointly organized periodic audit. Audit Checks on industrial projects in general and sawmills in particular to establish recognition and ensure compliance with the stipulated noise limit in the law.
Furthermore, public awareness should be organized for the benefit of the general public, industrialists and operators of sawmill in particular in order to increase their knowledge about the harmful effect of noise and recognition of NESREA as authority charged with the responsibility of controlling noise in Nigeria.
Keywords: Environmental Noise, Industrial Noise, Regulatory bodies, Health effect of noise.
Citation: Olukotun, S. A. (2026). Understanding the Health Effect of Human Exposure to Noise: A Strategy to Enforce Noise Standard and Control in Ibadan Metropolis OYO State Nigeria. J N food sci tech, 7(1):1-5. DOI : https://doi.org/10.47485/2834-7854.1052