noise is one of the most common workplace hazardous agents that can cause permanent hearing damage. workers in many industries are usually exposed to noise levels with high risks of hearing loss. accordingly this research aims to study the noise exposure and haring status of registered locksmiths who are exposed to harmful effects caused by several factors, such as key making machines loud nois...

background: it has been prover that the prevalence of experiencing job related stress is very high among the dentists. this stress can be the result of factors such as poor lightening of dental office and noise. this stress can cause emotional distress and threaten dentists’ physical health and affect the quality of their life. this study is conducted to determine dentists’ professional quality...

noise is one of the major hazardous occupational exposures and one of the occupations at risk is the transportation industry. however, few studies have measured and reported the amount of noise exposure in drivers. in this study, we evaluated noise exposure among the public transportation bus drivers of one major iranian city, kerman, southeast iran. eighty public transportation buses in the st...

Introduction: Among the environmental pollutions, noise is very important for its physiological  and psychological effects on human. Traffic noise is one of the most important pollutants and the  hospitals  are  one  of  the  critical  places  regarding  this  type  of  noise.  For  these  reasons,  in  the  summer  of  1382,  the  traffic  noise  of  Mashhad  main  streets  around  the  hospit...