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Book Review: Urban Health | Emerging Public Health Perspectives, Demi Miriam
Book Review: Urban Health | Emerging Public Health Perspectives, Demi Miriam
Journal of Research Initiatives
Book Review
Book Title: Urban Health | Emerging public health perspectives
Editors: Fernandes & Grewal, 2021
Publisher: Global South Strategies
Publication: 02 September 2021
City: Mangalore, India
Total No. of Pages: 341
Price (in INR): 950 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-8195336418
Hearing Conservation Program On A Campus: Worker Noise Exposure Assessment And Training, Tika Nepal
Hearing Conservation Program On A Campus: Worker Noise Exposure Assessment And Training, Tika Nepal
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Abstract
Introduction: Campus workers are exposed to loud noise from boilers, chillers, generators, snow blowers, leaf blowers, helicopters, utility vehicles, laboratory animals etc. No studies have looked at characterizing noise exposures among campus workers to see who needed to be enrolled in the Hearing Conservation Program (HCP).
Goal: The goal of this study was to determine which employees needed to be enrolled in a HCP.
Methods: This was a cross sectional study conducted among campus workers. We identified utility plant workers, comparative medicine workers, landscaping crew, security officers and facility staff who used utility vehicles as employees potentially exposed to …