Impulse noise and risk criteria

Noise and Health

Volumn 5, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 63-73

  Starck, Jukka ^a   Toppila, E ^a   Pyykko I ^b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attenuation of hearing protectors; Crest factor method; Industrial impulse noise; Risk assessment; Shooting impulses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EAR PROTECTION; EUROPEAN UNION; FOREST WORKER; FRANCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; INNER EAR DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHIPYARD WORKER; SOUND PRESSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0141919405     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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