An evaluation of procedures for determining the attenuation of hearing protectors
โ Scribed by T.I. Hempstock; N.J. Edwards; K. Needham
- Book ID
- 107722057
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 829 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-682X
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The protection afforded by a hearing protector to a wearer, defined here as the reduction in A-weighted sound pressure level at the ear, varies between wearers and between noises. "Effective protection" of a protector in a given noise, defined as the value reached by a specified majority of wearers,
## A BS TRA C T The purpose of the present study was to develop a probe microphone method to measure the attenuation of earplugs, earmuffs and their combination against high impulse sound levels from military firearms. The field measurements were made on three earmuffs and one earplug. A probe mi