Proposed iso standard determination of occupational noise exposure and estimation of noise-induced hearing impairment

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6933822

Von Gierke, H E

Research on the relationship between noise exposure and noise-induced hearing loss has been very intense over the last 30 years, and steady progress has been made in spite of many remaining questions and unresolved problems regarding the mechanisms. For the time being, avoidance of excessive noise exposure is the only way to prevent noise-induced hearing loss; this is the reason why governments, industry, workers and their representatives have been looking for scientific exposure criteria and guidelines to prevent hazardous noise exposure as part of comprehensive hearing conservation programs. Although it was clear from the beginning that noise-induced hearing loss in a population with exactly defined noise exposure would exhibit a statistical distribution due to differences in biological susceptibility, the epidemiological statistical data were not available to describe quantitatively the difference between the percentage of people with impaired hearing in a noise-exposed group and the percentage of people in a non-noise-exposed group, i.e., the risk of noise-induced hearing impairment.

• Research Organization: Air Force Aerospace Medical Research Lab., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6933822
• Report Number(s): AD-A-175901/8/XAB; AAMRL-TR-86-057
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

552000 -- Public Health
560400* -- Other Environmental Pollutant Effects
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
EPIDEMIOLOGY
HAZARDS
HEALTH HAZARDS
INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE
MEDICINE
NOISE
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
SAFETY
STANDARDS