Citation

Thiery L, Meyer-Bisch C. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1988; 84(2): 651-659.

Affiliation

Institut National de Recherche et de Securité (National Institute for Research and Safety in Occupational Health) (I.N.R.S.), Vandoeuvre, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, American Institute of Physics)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3262638

Abstract

A cross-sectional epidemiological survey was carried out in a car-body workshop involving 234 workers divided into three groups according to age and noise exposure duration. Their hearing levels, determined by using a standardized audiometric testing procedure, were compared to those of a reference population not exposed to noise, to those of a population exposed to quasisteady noises at 95 dB(A), and also to ISO 1999-1987. Results reveal significant hearing loss after 9 years of exposure, greater than that from quasisteady noise exposure with the same equivalent continuous A-weighted sound-pressure level.

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