Occupational Noise Exposure and Hearing Impairment among Employees’ in Car Service Operations

The starting material for processing of the group was toxicology at the University of L. Pasteur in Košice. The Clinic deals with the diagnostics, therapy and dispensary (follow-up) care of patients with occupational diseases, serious occupational intoxications and other kinds of health damage at work including assessment medicine evaluation. The Department of Process and Environmental Engineering at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Technical University in Košice is a workplace, which is well aware of the need of observation, measurement, monitoring objectification and evaluation as well as improvement of the quality of environment. The chair is the place for accredited workplace for the measurement, objectification and evaluation of noise in working and life environment. The analyzed sample included 51 employees, men of different age and various work qualification (mechanic, auto body repair technician, auto electrician, car painter, vehicle body builder, tire vulcanizer, assistant service driver, warehouseman and locksmith workers) participating in preventive medical follow-up examinations with common aspects of the risk at the workplace which include physical factors such as noise and vibrations. The entry criterion for placement into the group of data was the work at risk and the time period of work at the opera¬tion for at least 5 years. In these persons, we observed age, time period at risk, body mass index BMI and clinical signs associated with the work performed. In analyzing the influence of noise, we based our study on data obtained in audiometric examinations, which the employees underwent within the framework of preventive medical examinations.