Problématiques associées au développement d’un bouchon d’oreille « intelligent »

Many workers are exposed to noise levels high enough to put them at risk of losing their hearing. However, noise reduction at source, when technically feasible, is often difficult to implement for economic reasons. Therefore, individual protection remains the most widespread solution in practice.Unf...

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Main Authors: Jérémie Voix, Frédéric Laville
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail (IRSST) 2005-05-01
Series:Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/pistes/3205
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description Many workers are exposed to noise levels high enough to put them at risk of losing their hearing. However, noise reduction at source, when technically feasible, is often difficult to implement for economic reasons. Therefore, individual protection remains the most widespread solution in practice.Unfortunately, the hearing protectors currently available on the market are seldom worn as continuously as they should be (because they are not very comfortable or must be removed to communicate) and are generally poorly adapted to the worker’s need for protection (because their actual attenuation is generally unknown).This article presents the issues found in the ongoing project on an earplug that would solve these problems. The issues are related to occupational health and safety aspects (non-continuous wearing of the hearing protector and unadapted protection), technical aspects (development of a comfortable earplug both from the physical and sound perception point of view and whose performances are measurable) and scientific aspects (modeling of physical systems, signal processing, instrumentation and measurement techniques).
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spelling doaj-art-e95432c80dfe4597a79776910cb44b172025-01-09T16:02:29ZengInstitut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail (IRSST)Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé1481-93842005-05-017210.4000/pistes.3205Problématiques associées au développement d’un bouchon d’oreille « intelligent »Jérémie VoixFrédéric LavilleMany workers are exposed to noise levels high enough to put them at risk of losing their hearing. However, noise reduction at source, when technically feasible, is often difficult to implement for economic reasons. Therefore, individual protection remains the most widespread solution in practice.Unfortunately, the hearing protectors currently available on the market are seldom worn as continuously as they should be (because they are not very comfortable or must be removed to communicate) and are generally poorly adapted to the worker’s need for protection (because their actual attenuation is generally unknown).This article presents the issues found in the ongoing project on an earplug that would solve these problems. The issues are related to occupational health and safety aspects (non-continuous wearing of the hearing protector and unadapted protection), technical aspects (development of a comfortable earplug both from the physical and sound perception point of view and whose performances are measurable) and scientific aspects (modeling of physical systems, signal processing, instrumentation and measurement techniques).https://journals.openedition.org/pistes/3205occupational health and safetyacousticsnoisePPEhearing protection devices
spellingShingle Jérémie Voix
Frédéric Laville
Problématiques associées au développement d’un bouchon d’oreille « intelligent »
Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé
occupational health and safety
acoustics
noise
PPE
hearing protection devices
title Problématiques associées au développement d’un bouchon d’oreille « intelligent »
title_full Problématiques associées au développement d’un bouchon d’oreille « intelligent »
title_fullStr Problématiques associées au développement d’un bouchon d’oreille « intelligent »
title_full_unstemmed Problématiques associées au développement d’un bouchon d’oreille « intelligent »
title_short Problématiques associées au développement d’un bouchon d’oreille « intelligent »
title_sort problematiques associees au developpement d un bouchon d oreille intelligent
topic occupational health and safety
acoustics
noise
PPE
hearing protection devices
url https://journals.openedition.org/pistes/3205
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