Health Effects of Occupational Noise Exposure in the Range (90 - 110) dB(A) Especially on Blood Oxygen

Health Effects of Occupational Noise Exposure in the Range  (90 - 110) dB(A) Especially on Blood Oxygen Saturation of Workers  in Selected Industrial Plants

By

Dana Nabeel Alsheikh Ibrahim

Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Issam Rashed Abdel-Raziq

Co-supervisor
Dr. Zeid Naim Qamhieh

This Thesis is Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the Degree of Master of Physical Sciences, Faculty of Graduate Studies, An-Najah National University- Nablus, Palestine
2012

People throughout the world are facing many unpleasant pollution
effects such as air pollution, water pollution and noise pollution which are
seriously influencing human’s life.
The term noise is commonly used to describe sounds that are
disagreeable or unpleasant produced by acoustic waves of random
intensities and frequencies (Akhtar H. N., 1996). Some authors define
noise as any audible acoustic energy that adversely affects the
physiological or psychological well being of the people (Hashmi S.F.,
2009). However, noise is measured using a logarithmic decibel (dB) and
can be described by the help of loudness (intensity) and pitch (frequency).
Because of the rapid growth in technology that has mainly occurred in
urban countries not only in the developed one, but also in the developing
countries as well, noise pollution has become one of the major threats that
face the environment and the cost of reducing it in future years is expected
to be insurmountable (Joshi S., 2003).
The term noise is commonly used to describe sounds that are
disagreeable or unpleasant produced by acoustic waves of random
intensities and frequencies (Akhtar H. N., 1996). Some authors define
noise as any audible acoustic energy that adversely affects the
physiological or psychological well being of the people (Hashmi S.F.,
2009). However, noise is measured using a logarithmic decibel (dB) and
can be described by the help of loudness (intensity) and pitch (frequency).
Because of the rapid growth in technology that has mainly occurred in
urban countries not only in the developed one, but also in the developing
countries as well, noise pollution has become one of the major threats that
face the environment and the cost of reducing it in future years is expected
to be insurmountable (Joshi S., 2003).

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