Traditional rating of noise versus physiological costs of sound exposures to the hearing

Contents Preface v Chapter 1 Problems of Measurement, Evaluation, and Rating of Environmental Exposures in Occupational Health and Safety Associated with the Dose Maxim and Energy Equivalence Principle 1 H. Strasser Chapter 2 Impulse Noise Exposures, Present in Civil and Military Sectors 25 J.M. Hesse Chapter 3 Noise Immissions from Working with Bolt Setting Tools in the Construction Sector 43 M. Rottschäfer, J.M. Hesse, H. Irle and H. Strasser Chapter 4 Methods for Quantifying Hearing Threshold Shifts of Sound Exposures and for Depicting the Parameters TTS2, t(0 dB), and IRTTS Indicating the Physiological Costs to the Hearing 53 H. Irle and H. Strasser Chapter 5 Hearing Threshold Shifts and Restitution Course after Impulse and Continuous Noise at the Frequency of the Maximum Threshold Shift and the Adjacent Lower and Upper Frequencies 67 H. Strasser, H. Irle and S. Linke Chapter 6 Hearing Threshold Shifts and Their Restitution as Physiological Responses to Legally Tolerable Continuous and Impulse Noise Exposures with a Rating Level of 85 dB(A) 81 H. Strasser, J.M. Hesse and H. Irle Chapter 7 Physiological Costs of Energy Equivalent Exposures to Continuous and Additional Energetically Negligible Noise 93 H. Irle, J.M. Hesse and H. Strasser Chapter 8 Influence of the Number of Impulses and the Impulse Duration on Hearing Threshold Shifts 105 H. Irle and H. Strasser x Chapter 9 Investigations into the Efficiency of the Stapedius Reflex with Impulse Noise Series 115 H. Irle and H. Strasser Chapter 10 Physiological Costs of the Hearing after Exposures to White Noise, Industrial Noise, Heavy Metal, and Classical Music of 94 dB(A) for 1 Hour 127 H. Strasser, H. Irle and R. Scholz Chapter 11 Temporary Hearing Threshold Shifts and Restitution Associated with Exposures to Industrial Noise and Classical Music of 94 dB(A) for 1 Hour and 91 dB(A) for 2 Hours 137 H. Strasser, H. Irle and R. Legler Chapter 12 Comparative Investigations into the Physiological Responses to Heavy Metal, Techno, and Classical Music 149 H. Irle, F. Körner and H. Strasser Chapter 13 Effects of Noise Exposures during Physical Rest, Additional Physical Exercise and Combined Exposures to Alcohol and Cigarette Smoke on Hearing Threshold Shifts and their Restitution 163 H. Strasser and H. Irle Chapter 14 Quantification of the Insertion Loss of Personal Hearing Protection Devices by Means of a Subjective Method and an Artificial Head Measuring System 181 H. Irle, H. Fidan, J.M. Hesse and H. Strasser Chapter 15 Substantial Protection Loss Associated with a Minimally Reduced Wearing Time of Hearing Protectors – Fiction or Reality? 191 H. Irle, Ch. Rosenthal and H. Strasser Chapter 16 Influence of Reduced Wearing Time on the Attenuation of Earplugs – Prognosis by the 3-dB Exchange Rate versus Audiometric Measurements 203 H. Strasser, H. Irle and T. Siebel Chapter 17 Dubious Risk Prevention via Traditional Rating of Whole-Body Vibrations, UV Radiation, and Carbon Monoxide 211 J.M. Hesse and H. Strasser Author Index 227