Noise-induced hearing loss in small-scale metal industry in Nepal

Environmental noise induced hearing loss in Nepal.

INTRODUCTION Noise pollution in urban cities is a serious problem and steadily increasing over the years. This has direct and indirect affect to the people that can lead to the health hazard. OBJECTIVES To find out environmental noise induced health effect on people residing in an urban community and to predict the risk of the environmental noise induced hearing loss. MATERIAL AND METHODS O...

"parameters affecting noise induced hearing loss in industry"

the paper is based on a study conducted in three different industries on 84.4 on their employees to determine the effect of over all noise intensity, length of employment and rest periods among them. it was found that the mentioned factors have direct effect on the induced hearing loss among the exposed workers. high noise level and long period of employment adversely affect the hearing ability...

Occupational noise induced hearing loss in coal miners and coal washing factory workers in Kerman province

Introduction: The occupational noise induced hearing loss is one of the wide spread problems and a long term complication of working in noisy environments. At the present, large groups of workers who are working in noisy environments are exposed to hearing loss. So, this study is aimed to determine the prevalence of hearing loss (more than, 25 dB) of the workers in coal mines and leaching fac...

THE EFFECT OF NOISE-INDUCED HEARING LOSS ON DENTISTS

This paper presents noise problems associated with the use of air-turbine drills in dental practice. Two hundred and fifty dentists (male and female) were randomly selected from the faculty of dentistry as well as the dentists who worked private in Tehran. The results indicated that the mean value of sound pressure level produced by the high-speed drills was 69.1 db. Most of the energy from...

PREVALENCE OF NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS IN EMPLOYEES IN SHIRAZ INDUSTRIAL FACTORIES