Does occupational noise matter amongst manufacturing (small and medium enterprises) workers? Empirical evidence from Magaba, Mbare, Zimbabwe

Mapuranga, Miston; Maziriri, Eugine Tafadzwa; Letshaba, Ralebitso Kenneth; Chitamba, Anos

doi:10.4102/sajcd.v67i2.680

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“…The studies available on the effect of noise in the workplace show how this risk can negatively affect the performance of certain activities, acting in particular on the level of performance and safety; for this reason, even accidents and injuries can be a sentinel indicator of a decline in performance [59,65,66], as well as distraction errors [67] or sickness absence among workers [68].…”

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Neurobehavioral Alterations in Occupational Noise Exposure: A Systematic Review

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The psychology of sustainability and sustainable development emphasizes the value to ensure health and well-being in different environments, including workplaces. Chronic exposure to noise can cause several extraordinary effects and involve all the systems of the human organism. In addition to cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and immune effects, the data in the literature show alterations in behavioral disturbances, memory capacity, and cognitive performance. Through this systematic review, the authors try to find out the main neurobehavioral alterations in the case of occupational exposure to noise. The literature review included articles published in the major databases (PubMed, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Embase), using a combination of some relevant keywords. This online search yielded 4434 references; after selection, the authors analyzed 41 articles (4 narrative reviews and 37 original articles). From this analysis, it appears that the main symptoms are related to psychological distress, annoyance, sleep disturbances, and cognitive performance. Regarding tasks, the most frequent employments concern school staff, followed by employees from various industrial sectors and office workers. Although the causes are still widely debated, it is essential to protect these workers against chronic exposure to noise. In fact, in addition to a hearing loss, they can manifest many other related discomforts over time and compromise their full working capacity, as well as expose them to a greater risk of accidents or absences from work.

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“…The studies available on the effect of noise in the workplace show how this risk can negatively affect the performance of certain activities, acting in particular on the level of performance and safety; for this reason, even accidents and injuries can be a sentinel indicator of a decline in performance [58,59,60], as well as distraction errors [61] or sickness absence among workers [62].…”

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Neurobehavioral Alterations in Occupational Noise Exposure: A Systematic Review

Traversini¹,

Mucci²,

Lulli³

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Chronic exposure to noise can cause several extraordinary effects and involve all the systems of the human organism. In addition to cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and immune effects, the data in the literature show alterations in behavioral disturbances, in memory capacity and cognitive performance. Through this systematic review, the authors try to find out which are the main neurobehavioral alterations, in case of occupational exposure to noise. Literature review included articles published in the major databases (PubMed, Cochrane Library, Scopus), using a combina-tion of some relevant keywords. This online search yielded 4434 references; after selection, the authors analyzed 41 articles (4 narrative reviews and 37 original articles). From this analysis, it appears that main symptoms are related to psychological distress, annoyance, sleep disturbances, cognitive performance. Regarding tasks, the most frequent employments concern school staff, followed by employees from various industrial sectors and office workers. Although the causes are still widely debated, it is essential to protect these workers against chronic exposure to noise. In fact, in addition to a hearing loss, they can manifest many other related discomforts over time and compromise their full working capacity, as well as expose them to a greater risk of accidents or absences from work.

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“…As far as monitoring and evaluation factors in occupational noise within the African context are concerned, issues of patient factors such as the influence Occupational noise-induced hearing loss and preventive audiology of age on ONIHL need careful consideration . The focus on the employees is further highlighted by Mapuranga, Maziriri and Letshaba (2020), where the importance of how factors such as noise exposure at work as well as the employees' predisposition to hearing impairment, as well as job performance, can be significantly influenced by occupational noise. In their study conducted on manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SME) workers, Mapuranga et al (2020) found that occupational noise has a positive and significant effect on attitudes towards noise exposure and observed vulnerability to hearing loss in this group.…”

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Community-based audiology services: An effective strategy for the prevention of hearing loss in rural communities

Joubert¹

2022

Preventive Audiology: An African Perspective

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Peer review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript underwent an evaluation to compare the level of originality with other published works and was subjected to rigorous two-step peer review before publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the editor(s) or author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher, editor(s), and author(s). The publisher shared feedback on the similarity report and the reviewers' inputs with the manuscript's editor(s) or author(s) to improve the manuscript. Where the reviewers recommended revision and improvements, the editor(s) or author(s) responded adequately to such recommendations. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the manuscript be published. v Research justificationPreventive health care, where preventive audiology is positioned, contains strategies adopted and implemented for disease and disorder prevention. Hearing function can be negatively impacted by numerous factors, including lifestyle choices, environmental factors, genetic predisposition, the burden of disease and other causes. Frequently, hearing impairment can be prevented and its consequences significantly minimised by preventive measures. Such prevention commands conscientiously deliberate anticipatory actions that can fall under primordial, primary, secondary or tertiary levels of prevention. South Africa, as a resource-constrained low-and middle-income country (LMIC), still has a challenge of high numbers of individuals with preventable hearing impairment from the cradle to the grave. Numerous strategies exist for the prevention of hearing impairment across all ages and in various contexts. Preventive Audiology: An African Perspective is an original scholarly book that introduces the concept of preventive audiology, with a specific focus on the African context, which is in line with the South African re-engineered primary health care strategy and the World Health Organization's approach. The book reflects on contextually relevant and responsive evidence-based perspectives, grounded in an African context on preventive audiology, in four major ear-and-hearing burdens of disease within the South African context, namely, (1) early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI), (2) middle ear pathologies, (3) ototoxicity and (4) noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). The book represents innovative research, seen from both South African and global perspectives. It offers new discourse and argues for a paradigm shift in how audiology is theorised and performed, particularly in LMIC contexts. The goal of this book is to motivate for a paradigm shift in how ear-and-hearing health care is approached within this LMIC context, while also arguing for Afrocentric best practice evidence that leads to next practice. For Afrocentric epistemology, which is a different narrative that is deliberately removed from Western epi...

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Does occupational noise matter amongst manufacturing (small and medium enterprises) workers? Empirical evidence from Magaba, Mbare, Zimbabwe

Cited by 8 publications

References 53 publications

Neurobehavioral Alterations in Occupational Noise Exposure: A Systematic Review

Neurobehavioral Alterations in Occupational Noise Exposure: A Systematic Review

Neurobehavioral Alterations in Occupational Noise Exposure: A Systematic Review

Community-based audiology services: An effective strategy for the prevention of hearing loss in rural communities

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