Hearing status among aircraft maintenance personnel in a commercial airline company

Noise and Health

Volumn 13, Issue 54, 2011, Pages 364-370

  Smedje, Greta ^a   Lundén, Maria ^b   Gärtner, Lotta ^b   Lundgren, Håkan ^b   Lindgren, Torsten ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS)   (Sweden)

Author keywords

aircraft; Aircraft maintenance personnel; hearing loss; hearing threshold levels; noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGED; AIRCRAFT; AUDIOMETRY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 80054765583     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: 19984030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.85509     Document Type: Article

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