Comfort evaluation of hearing protection

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 543-551

  Hsu, Yeh Liang ^a   Huang, Chung Cheng ^a   Yo, Chin Yu ^a   Chen, Chiou Jong ^b   Lien, Chun Ming ^c  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Inst of Occup Safety and Health   (Taiwan)

^c MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Comfort indices; Earmuff; Hearing protection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DATA RECORDING; EAR PROTECTORS; NOISE POLLUTION; PERSONNEL; PRODUCT DESIGN; TESTING;

COMFORT TESTER; QUANTITATIVE DATA; WORKERS;

HEARING AIDS;

EAR PROTECTION; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENT; HEARING; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER;

EID: 1942443867     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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