A trail of individual education for hearing protection with an instrument that measures the noise attenuation effect of wearing earplugs

Industrial Health

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 393-396

  Tsukada, Tsukimi ^a   Sakakibara, Hisataka ^b  

^a Health Care Office   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Education; Hearing loss; Hearing protection device; Noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EAR PROTECTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER;

ADULT; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 51849133665     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.46.393     Document Type: Article

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