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Hearing Damage in workers from exposure to occupational noise

Abstract:

The damage that industrial noise produces on the health of workers in the different companies is not related only to alterations to both physical and mental health, the most evident and studied is hearing loss or decreased hearing capacity of workers. This systematic review aims to show the damage that is generated in workers exposed to industrial noise. A systematic analysis of the literature was carried out, for which a bibliography in specialized databases was reviewed. According to the articles analyzed, the total of the workers studied and who were exposed to industrial noise were 58,821, all were analyzed with tonal audiometry via area, of which it was evidenced that 19,234 workers presented hearing damage related to exposure to industrial noise, which corresponds to 32 75% of the total population studied. In relation to the countries where the studies were carried out, the largest number of workers were studied in the US with 88.36%, followed by Colombia with 6.12%, Peru with 2.62% and Ecuador with just 0.18 % of population exposed to noise.