Survey into industrial noise in Cyprus

Τίτλος

Survey into industrial noise in Cyprus

Θέμα

Industrial noise--Cyprus

Industrial noise--Health aspects

Δημιουργός

Shouftas, Constantinos

Πηγή

Higher Technical Institute

Το πλήρες κείμενο είναι διαθέσιμο από το Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, Εμπορίου Βιομηχανίας και Τουρισμού.

Εκδότης

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Ημερομηνία

1998

Συνεισφέρων

Eleptheriou, P.

Δικαιώματα

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού και κάτοχου των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων.

Μορφή

pdf

Γλώσσα

en

Τύπος

text

Αναγνωριστικό

MED0392

Σύνοψη

The purpose of this report is to give the degree in which the problem of noise pollution exists in the Cyprus industry and how it affects the hearing of the workers. It also indicates the numerous effects of noise upon human in order to sensitize the people so that they all fight noise pollution with their own means.
For the project to be performed noise measurements were taken in 9 industries. The acoustic energy received (which can be expressed by the percentage of dose) by the 28 workers in the industry was measured and the findings were· statistically analysed.
Then five out of the twenty-eight workers had their hearing examined by an otolaryngologist. The results were also analysed statistically. The results of the examination of other eight workers who are working in industries (not included in the nine industries mentioned above) were also analysed.
The main conclusion is that the great majority of workers had received an average dose less than 100% and that there is a huge problem of noise in industry because as it was found almost 30% of workers had received a noise of above 100% dose. Also it was found out (from the thirteen workers examined) that more than half of them are suffering from tinnitus and have a high threshold shift in the high frequencies. Finally a very small percentage of workers employs hearing protection and the great majority is not aware of the effects of noise upon human.