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A large number of workers suffer from hearing problems caused by exposure to high levels of noise, with noise being a pervasive occupational noxae in most industrial workplaces. Thus, exposure to this noxious substance is subject to legal regulations in the field of occupational health and safety, which limit exposure level, in order to reduce the risk of occupational disease generated by exposure to noxious noise. Low efficiency caused by exposure to noise, mistakes made in various operations, masking safety audible signals, distraction, worker’s fatigue, and overwork, requires the implementation of technical and organizational measures that influence both the worker, by using additional protective equipment (hearing protective equipment) as well as the economic agent, by applying technical measures for modernization/redesign of technological flows (allotting material / financial resources). Assessment of occupational risks for each workplace involves determining and quantifying exposure to toxins, being the main objective of accidents and occupational diseases prevention, in order to apply the most effective measures to reduce exposure to these harmful factors. The current paper analyses the level of noise generated by technological processes in steel industry, over a monitoring period of 5 years, for the main activities. Prevention of exposure to noise must be based on both the determination of noise level and its evolution over time, to measure the effectiveness of mitigation measures. In this sense, the paper aims to analyze noise exposure evolution over time for the main workplaces in a steel plant, in order to assess the dynamics of exposure, during monitoring.
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Sorin, S., Calamar, A., Alexandru, S., Lorand, T., Marius, K. (2022). Workers’ Occupational Exposure to Noise in Steel Industry. A Case Study. In: Herisanu, N., Marinca, V. (eds) Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical Structures – AVMS-2021. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 274. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96787-1_16
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