Personal noise exposures of operators of agricultural tractors

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 274-281

  Aybek, Ali ^a   Kamer, H Atil ^a   Arslan, Selçuk ^a  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cabin; Noise; Sound pressure level; Tractor operations

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS; AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; APPLICATORS; CULTIVATION; DRILLS; FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS; SOUND INSULATION;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINE; CABIN; NOISE; NOISE INSULATION; PERSONAL PROTECTION; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; TRACTOR OPERATORS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL);

AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR OPERATOR; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; AVERAGE WEIGHTED EQUIVALENT SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MOTOR VEHICLE; NOISE REDUCTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SOUND PRESSURE; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKING TIME;

EID: 70350763989     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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