Noise Industrial Pollution: Health Vulnerabilities on Textile Industry Workers

Noise pollution and its control in textile industry

Hi gh noise level causes psychological e ffects and physical damage, including irritability, loss o f concentration, anxiety and increased pulse rate. A one minute exposure to a sound level over IOOdBA can cause permanent hearing loss. The studies show that a large number of textil e workers, especially weavers, suffer from occupational hearing loss. The machinery manufacturers made considerabl...

Economic Analysis on Pollution Control for Textile Industry

Since the present researches on pollution control for textile printing & dyeing industry are mainly focused on qualitative description up to now, instead of special quantitative analysis, based on the census data of pollution sources, this paper adopts literature collection method and single-factor variance components method for continuous variables to identify the factors influencing cost for ...

Effects of industrial noise pollution on the auditory performance and health status of industrial workers in Oluyole Industrial Estate, Ibadan, Nigeria

Exposure to excessive noise level is capable of producing destruction of the hair cells due to vasoconstriction of the cochlea blood vessels and over stimulation of the hair cells as a response to the noise exposure, which in turn may reduce the nutrient and oxygen to the cells as well as, placing a great impingement on the occupational performances of the Industrial workers. The study examined...

Tooth abrasion in workers exposed to noise in the Montenegrin textile industry.

A cross-sectional study was performed on 225 textile workers from a wool production company in Montenegro to test the hypothesis of a relationship between exposure to intense industrial noise and tooth abrasion. The group exposed to intense noise (104 dB (A) Leq) consisted of 111 weavers (82 males and 29 females), while the control group (81 dB (A) Leq) consisted of 114 blue-collar workers (32 ...

The Health Burden of Dust Pollution in the Textile Industry of Faisalabad, Pakistan