PMID: 16613370Apr 15, 2006Paper

Comparative analysis of occupational hearing loss risk among private farmers with reference to decision-making criteria contained in the cabinet ordinances (current and previous)

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Leszek Solecki

Abstract

Noise present in the agricultural environment constitutes a significant risk for the hearing organ among private farmers. The change of the principles concerning diagnostic and decision-making procedures give rise to specific consequences of an ethical, social, medical, economic or political nature. The aim of the study was to perform a comparative analysis of the occurrence of the occupational hearing loss risk among private farmers, with reference to two different decision-making criteria. The assessment of the state of hearing in farmers, previously carried out in a selected group of 128 people, was the major research material. A comparative analysis of hearing loss and the evaluation of the risk of occupational hearing impairment was conducted on the basis of two different decision-making criteria set forth in the Cabinet Ordinances of 2002 and 1983, supplemented with the Instruction of the Minister of Health issued in 1987. In the evaluation of hearing loss the following aspects were considered: selected age and employment duration intervals as well as selected audiometric frequencies and types of the diagnosed hearing loss (total or corrected). The analysis of occupational risk, however, was based on specified frequencies...Continue Reading

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