I try to avoid being at noisy places irrespective I am working or resting. If noise is unnecessary in the working environment - my actions are quite swift, not speaking of the resting areas. The nature of actions? Whatever it takes to stop it.
Whatever people working on, a head ought to be protected from any frustration factors as much as possible. Otherwise, it's a recipe for a scattered attention, lack of focus, rising level of frustration, low work quality, and fast workers' fatigue.
In fact, this requires collective action, education and awareness of society to reduce this pollution as much as possible, and the state must put in place binding laws to reduce noise pollution, it is not a solution to tightly close doors and windows and use earplugs to get rid of noise
If the effective signal has a narrow bandwidth, you can consider filtering it. Filter out noise outside the band and retain effective frequency components
Dears, For neighbours noise of low level but annoying can be reduced by using high NRC acoustic material at windows& doors. Use of earphones or ear buds are not advised.
General transportation, traffic noise, best solution is use of Electric Vehicles particularly powered by overhead supply line for transport or goods vehicles.
Use of cloths having high STC quality may save from sound reflected from body to ear.
It is virtually no use in complaining the case to the authorities; however, by using double glass windows, one can minimize the outside noise pollutants.