INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, vol. 62, n° 4, 1990, pages 323-327, 11 réf., ISSN 0340-0131, DEU
The effectiveness of ten different ear-protectors (6 types of earmuffs and 4 types of earplugs) has been tested under laboratory conditions and in the real occupational environment.
Three methods were used:
(1) physical, utilizing a dummy head; (2) subjective, real-ear, executed on trained human subjects; (3) subjective, measuring TTS2 resulting from occupational, one-workday exposure.
It could be shown that the ear protection efficiency ascertained on the basis of TTS2 measurements on workers exposed to noise in their occupational environment is, in nearly all cases, smaller than the efficiency expected, taking into account the sound damping of the same protectors, tested under laboratory conditions, using the physical or real-ear method.
Mots-clés BDSP : Surdité, Prévention, Protection individuelle, Exposition professionnelle, Médecine travail, Traumatisme, Bruit, Homme
Mots-clés Pascal : Surdité, Prévention, Trouble dû au bruit, Protection individuelle, Casque antibruit, Evaluation performance, Exposition professionnelle, Médecine travail, Traumatisme, Agent physique, Bruit, ORL pathologie, Homme
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Hearing loss, Prevention, Acoustic trauma, Individual safety equipment, Hearing muffler, Performance evaluation, Occupational exposure, Occupational medicine, Trauma, Physical agent, Noise, ENT disease, Human
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Code Inist : 002B10D02. Création : 199406.