Assessment of Noise and Its Impact on Miner’s Health

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10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_135How to use a DOI?

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Occupational health and safety; Noise-pollution; Noise induced hearing loss; Miner’s health

Abstract

Noise is considered as the one of the main occupational health and safety concern. When it comes to industry like mining where heavy earth moving machineries were used for basic operations, noise is generated hugely. Numerous previous studies have raised this concern but those studies are limited to evaluation only. This study is done not only to evaluate the noise but also to find out whether the noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) is caused or not. The findings of this research confirms that the noise is above the DGMS standards and mine workers are subjected to risk of NIHL assessed through qualitative questionnaire survey. Immediate preventive measures should be taken by the mine management to reduce the NIHL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Vikram Sakinala
AU  - P. S. Paul
AU  - Nitesh Kumar Rajwade
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/09
TI  - Assessment of Noise and Its Impact on Miner’s Health
BT  - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering (ICETE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1359
EP  - 1366
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_135
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_135
ID  - Sakinala2023
ER  -