EFFECTS OF NOISE AND PERSONAL HEARING PROTECTION ON HEARING

Since high noise exposure causes various physiological changes in the cochlea it is not surprising that many psychoacoustical changes also manifest themselves in people with hearing loss due to noise damage. Some of these psychoacoustical changes of the auditory system, such as temporary threshold shift, permanent threshold shift, speech perception, frequency resolution, and temporal integration are discussed in lay terms. The strategy to be used in noisy industries to reduce noise exposure of workers is also discussed with special attention to the use of personal hearing protection. The use of hearing protectors has different effects on people with different degrees of hearing loss. This paper also relates the effect of hearing protectors to some of the psychoacoustical changes due to noise damage.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • West Coast International Meeting Vancouver, British Columbia, August 8-11, 1983.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

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• Authors:
  • Chung, D Y
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Pagination: 3 p.
• Serial:
  • SAE Technical Paper
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
  • ISSN: 0148-7191
  • EISSN: 2688-3627
  • Serial URL: http://papers.sae.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash exposure; Hearing loss; Noise; Protection
• Uncontrolled Terms: Exposure
• Subject Areas: Environment; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00381878
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE 831195, HS-035 938
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 30 1984 12:00AM