Is there a risk to safety when working in the New South Wales underground coal-mining industry while having binaural noise-induced hearing loss?

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 180-184

  Viljoen, D A ^a,c   Nie, V ^b   Guest, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c Hunter Industrial Medicine   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accident; Noise induced hearing loss; Safety risk; Underground coal mining industry; Variable

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; COAL MINING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NOISE INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COAL MINING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33645282520     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2006.01034.x     Document Type: Article

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