Noise emission levels in coal industry

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Sharma, O ^a   Mohanan, V ^a   Singh, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Hearing conservation; Machine noise; Noise pollution; Occupational noise exposure

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COAL INDUSTRY; COAL MINES; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

HEARING CONSERVATION; NOISE INDUCED PERMANENT THRESHOLD SHIFT; OCCUPATIONAL NOISE EXPOSURE;

NOISE POLLUTION;

EID: 0032069134     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-682X(97)00073-X     Document Type: Article

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