Noise and Hearing

ISBN-13: 9781861561541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 250 str.

Linda M. Luxon; Ron Hinchcliffe; R. G. Williams

Opis

Ageing processes aside, excessive noise exposure remains the commonest cause of damage to hearing. Despite a voluminous body of knowledge in this area, health education, legislation and hearing conservation programmes have failed to have a satisfactory impact. This applies in both the developed and the developing world. The factors governing the development of permanent noise-induced shifts in the threshold of hearing are diverse and poorly understood, leading to controversy amongst both doctors and lawyers.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.

Preface.

Part I References.

Part II Some Acts, Regulations and Standards Relevant to Hearing and to Noise.

Part III Glossary of Symbols, Abbreviations and Terms.

Part IV Chronology of Development of Knowledge and Practice Relevant to ONIHL.

Part V Chronology of Publications relating Tinnitus to Noise Exposure.

Blurb

Noise damage to hearing health is a health risk which is associated with both civilian and military occupations as well as certain leisure activities. Occupational noise damage to hearing must date from the bronze age, when man first began to fashion metals some five thousand years ago. The rapid growth of industrialisation over the past two centuries has produced what might be termed as the current civilian epidemic of occupational noise induced hearing loss. This series seeks to address points relevant to current knowledge of the subject. The volume should prove useful to members of the many disciplines that have an interest in this subject.