Comparing Algorithms for Classifying Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) from Audiograms

Health surveillance for noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL).

Ross et al. [1] compared hearing loss in divers and offshore workers and concluded that current Health & Safety Executive (HSE) guidance on the assessment of audiograms is ‘in error’ and ‘inadequate’. Grading the sum of hearing thresholds at 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 kHz using the HSE ‘age-adjusted norm’ values [2], they found that the HSE scheme missed referring roughly half of people thought to have s...

Noise induced hearing loss ( NIHL ) : Possible long - term research projects

Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL): literature review with a focus on occupational medicine

According to the Ministry of Health (2006), Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is hearing loss caused by prolonged exposure to noise. It is characterized as sensorineural hearing loss and is usually bilateral, irreversible, and progressive while the exposure to noise continues. A NIHL is a predictable and preventable disease with an epidemiologically relevant prevalence in urban communities. The...

THE EFFECT OF NOISE-INDUCED HEARING LOSS ON DENTISTS

This paper presents noise problems associated with the use of air-turbine drills in dental practice. Two hundred and fifty dentists (male and female) were randomly selected from the faculty of dentistry as well as the dentists who worked private in Tehran. The results indicated that the mean value of sound pressure level produced by the high-speed drills was 69.1 db. Most of the energy from...

noise-induced hearing loss: prevention is possible

conclusions despite rising figures of reported occupational hearing loss, working nbii statistics show that the nihl problem in the danish work environment has, in fact, decreased. in our study, we found that roughly one third (around 100 cases) of the 272 screened persons presumably had nihl, taking into account 88 probable cases (column b) and 44 questionable ones (column c + 16 ski slopes). ...