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Noise exposure to the workers in Malaysian construction industry

Noise and construction are two things that mutually related. Previous studies showed that construction workers are likely exposed to high level of noise exposure when there is no appropriate measure is carried out. Almost all activities in construction generate noise that will affect workers health...

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Main Author: Sarbayni, Mohd. Mursyid
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
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spelling my.utm.485402017-08-03T06:32:17Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48540/ Noise exposure to the workers in Malaysian construction industry Sarbayni, Mohd. Mursyid TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Noise and construction are two things that mutually related. Previous studies showed that construction workers are likely exposed to high level of noise exposure when there is no appropriate measure is carried out. Almost all activities in construction generate noise that will affect workers health and well-being. This study is to compare the noise exposure level among workers in four construction sites. In addition, the research also was conducted to assess the noise exposure level produced from construction site activities and to explore the effect of noise exposure to the workers. Furthermore, the workers’ level of awareness regarding noise exposure is being studied. Moreover, the perceptions of workers on noise exposure also were tested. Results showed that most of the activities in construction site produced noise exposure below the permissible noise exposure level of 90 dB (A) or first schedule of FMR 1989. However, one site in the study exceed the first action level of 80 dB (A) of current international standard. Consequently, almost half of the workers experienced tinnitus, depression and high blood pressure due to the noisy environment. It is suggested that both employers and workers employ preventive actions in order to reduce the noise exposure and to minimize the effect of noise to their health. 2014 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48540/1/MohdMursyidBinSarbayniMFKA2013.pdf Sarbayni, Mohd. Mursyid (2014) Noise exposure to the workers in Malaysian construction industry. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing. http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:79543?queryType=vitalDismax&query=Noise+exposure+to+the+workers+in+Malaysian+construction+industry&public=true
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topic TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
spellingShingle TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Sarbayni, Mohd. Mursyid
Noise exposure to the workers in Malaysian construction industry
description Noise and construction are two things that mutually related. Previous studies showed that construction workers are likely exposed to high level of noise exposure when there is no appropriate measure is carried out. Almost all activities in construction generate noise that will affect workers health and well-being. This study is to compare the noise exposure level among workers in four construction sites. In addition, the research also was conducted to assess the noise exposure level produced from construction site activities and to explore the effect of noise exposure to the workers. Furthermore, the workers’ level of awareness regarding noise exposure is being studied. Moreover, the perceptions of workers on noise exposure also were tested. Results showed that most of the activities in construction site produced noise exposure below the permissible noise exposure level of 90 dB (A) or first schedule of FMR 1989. However, one site in the study exceed the first action level of 80 dB (A) of current international standard. Consequently, almost half of the workers experienced tinnitus, depression and high blood pressure due to the noisy environment. It is suggested that both employers and workers employ preventive actions in order to reduce the noise exposure and to minimize the effect of noise to their health.
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title Noise exposure to the workers in Malaysian construction industry
title_short Noise exposure to the workers in Malaysian construction industry
title_full Noise exposure to the workers in Malaysian construction industry
title_fullStr Noise exposure to the workers in Malaysian construction industry
title_full_unstemmed Noise exposure to the workers in Malaysian construction industry
title_sort noise exposure to the workers in malaysian construction industry
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url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48540/1/MohdMursyidBinSarbayniMFKA2013.pdf
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