Noise exposure of workers of the construction sector

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 753-760

  Fernández, Marcos D ^a   Quintana, Samuel ^a   Chavarría, Noelia ^a   Ballesteros, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Construction workers; Noise; Occupational noise exposure

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; CONSTRUCTION SECTORS; CONSTRUCTION WORKERS; CURRENT REGULATIONS; HEARING SYSTEMS; NOISE; NOISE EXPOSURES; NOISE LEVELS; OCCUPATIONAL NOISE EXPOSURE; SOUND LEVEL METERS;

NOISE POLLUTION;

EID: 60449117032     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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