Contributions of non-occupational activities to total noise exposure of construction workers

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 463-473

  Neitzel, Richard ^a   Seixas, Noah ^a   Goldman, Bryan ^a   Daniell, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure assessment; Hearing loss risk; Non occupational noise

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; PULMONARY DISEASES; SMOKE; TUMORS; AUDITION; NOISE POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SURVEYS;

HEARING LOSS; NON-OCCUPATIONAL ACTIVITIES;

OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FIREARM; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FIREARMS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MUSIC; NOISE; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS; DOSIMETRY MEASUREMENT; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; HEARING LOSS; NON-OCCUPATIONAL ACTIVITIES; NON-OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL NOISE EXPOSURE;

EID: 3343008850     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/meh041     Document Type: Article

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