Hearing‐Loss Trend Curves and the Damage‐Risk Criterion in Diesel‐Engineroom Personnel

1964 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 1050-1050
Author(s):  
J. D. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Risk Criterion ◽  
Damage Risk

scholarly journals Comparison of Vocal Vibration-Dose Measures for Potential-Damage Risk Criteria

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 1425-1439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo R. Titze ◽  
Eric J. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Energy Dissipation ◽  
Dose Calculations ◽  
Equal Energy ◽  
Vocal Fold Vibration ◽  
Risk Criterion ◽  
Time Cycle ◽  
Vocal Intensity ◽  
Potential Damage ◽  
Voice Use ◽  
Damage Risk

Purpose Schoolteachers have become a benchmark population for the study of occupational voice use. A decade of vibration-dose studies on the teacher population allows a comparison to be made between specific dose measures for eventual assessment of damage risk. Method Vibration dosimetry is reformulated with the inclusion of collision stress. Two methods of estimating amplitude of vocal-fold vibration are compared to capture variations in vocal intensity. Energy loss from collision is added to the energy-dissipation dose. An equal-energy-dissipation criterion is defined and used on the teacher corpus as a potential-damage risk criterion. Results Comparison of time-, cycle-, distance-, and energy-dose calculations for 57 teachers reveals a progression in information content in the ability to capture variations in duration, speaking pitch, and vocal intensity. The energy-dissipation dose carries the greatest promise in capturing excessive tissue stress and collision but also the greatest liability, due to uncertainty in parameters. Cycle dose is least correlated with the other doses. Conclusion As a first guide to damage risk in excessive voice use, the equal-energy-dissipation dose criterion can be used to structure trade-off relations between loudness, adduction, and duration of speech.

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