Hearing loss due to partly impulsive industrial noise exposure at levels between 87 and 90 dB(A)
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 84 (2) , 651-659
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.396844
Abstract
A cross-sectional epidemiological survey was carried out in a car-body workshop involving 234 workers divided into three groups according to age and noise exposure duration. Their hearing levels, determined by using a standardized audiometric testing procedure, were compared to those of a reference population not exposed to noises at 95 dB(A), and also to ISO 1999-1987. Results reveal significant hearing loss after 9 years of exposure, greater than that from quasisteady noise exposure with the same equivalent continuous A-weighted sound-pressure level.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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