
Quiet please: reducing occupational exposure to harmful noise
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bulletin of the world health organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.459
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1564-0604
pISSN - 0042-9686
DOI - 10.2471/blt.19.021019
Subject(s) - quiet , occupational exposure , medicine , environmental health , noise (video) , occupational safety and health , computer science , pathology , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics) , physics
Making workers aware of the risks they incur is key to implementing hearing preservation initiatives, but some occupations present intractable challenges. Gary Humphreys reports.