Fit for the frontline? A focus group exploration of auditory tasks carried out by infantry and combat support personnel

ZL Bevis, HD Semeraro, RM van Besouw… - Noise and …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… to the complex auditory environment experienced by British infantry personnel and identified
17 auditory tasks carried out by personnel on operational duties. These auditory tasks will …

… gunshots in a realistic field environment: effects of open-ear versus hearing protection-enhancement devices (HPEDs), military vehicle noise, and hearing impairment

KA Talcott, JG Casali, JP Keady… - International journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
… Finally, military personnel who lose their auditory fitness-for-duty (AFFD) due to hearing …
evaluated with a Beltone 119 manual portable pure-tone audiometer in a 25 dBA environment

Exposure to noise on board locomotives

B Seshagiri - AIHA Journal, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
… had completed hearing evaluations, including audiometric … an indication that the noise
environment in locomotive cabs … The mean LEQ during this duty cycle was reported to be 84 …

Noise sources and control, and exposure groups in chemical manufacturing plants

O Rikhotso, JL Harmse, JC Engelbrecht - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
evaluations) and the US EPA were identified as bodies having … In SA, the NIHL Regulations
should incorporate the duty of … SA regulatory environment is the formalisation of a peak noise-…

Fire fighter noise exposure

UWE Reischl, HS BAIR, P REISCHL - American Industrial Hygiene …, 1979 - Taylor & Francis
evaluation of firefighter noise exposure is in order. Any survey of firefighter’s duties and tasks
will indicate that the highest noise … equivalent to home environments. Our measurements …

Temporary and permanent noise-induced threshold shifts: a review of basic and clinical observations

AF Ryan, SG Kujawa, T Hammill, C Le Prell… - Otology & …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
… in noise. The consequences of TTS and PTS include significant deficits in communication that
can impact performance of military duties … , especially in noisy environments. More severe …

[HTML][HTML] Development of an open-source road traffic noise model for exposure assessment

J Gulliver, D Morley, D Vienneau, F Fabbri… - Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
… an evaluation of the model using comparisons of estimated noise levels with noise level …
Finally, we will undertake additional evaluation studies and make continuous noise

A quantitative measure of fitness for duty and work processes for human reliability analysis

Y Kim, J Park, W Jung - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2017 - Elsevier
… on the evaluation of the two socio-psychological PSFs: fitness for duty and work processes.
… A level of the stress associated with environmental issues such as noise, temperature, and …

The effect of hearing-protection devices on auditory situational awareness and listening effort

CJ Smalt, PT Calamia, AP Dumas, JP Perricone… - Ear and …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
… training exercises and operational duties. However, these … earlier cognitive fatigue in noisy
environments. Further study is … Evaluation of the effects of HPDs on auditory localization …

Construction noise: exposure, effects, and the potential for remediation; a review and analysis

AH Suter - AIHA journal, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
noise environments are typical of the construction industry, unlike many manufacturing
industries in which the noise is … Bids were evaluated on the basis of both noise level and price. In …