Nonoccupational noise exposures and their hazards: a literature review

Abstract

Noise pollution has been extensively studied during the last 30 years. Although most of the government regulations protect the vast majority of the workforce in the in the United States, they fail to consider the workers' exposure to noise during nonworking hours as well as the rest of the population exposure to nonoccupational noise. A review of published research on the noise and potential effect of various nonoccupational sources of noise is presented in this paper.