Evaluation of auditory fatigue in combined noise, heat and workload exposure

Industrial Health

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 527-534

  Chen, Chiou Jong ^a   Dai, Yu Tung ^b   Sun, Yih Min ^b   Lin, Yi Chang ^c   Juang, Yow Jer ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HWA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c TOKO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Combined effects; Heat stress; Noise induced temporary threshold shift; Recovery time; Taguchi's method; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

ADULT; AUDITORY FATIGUE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; TAIWAN; WORKLOAD;

EID: 34548624302     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.45.527     Document Type: Article

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