@article {ARENAS:2024:0736-2935:6674,
title = "Comparing Kurtosis-adjusted weighted levels with other metrics to assess the risk of hearing loss from non-Gaussian noise exposures",
journal = "INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings",
parent_itemid = "infobike://ince/incecp",
publishercode ="ince",
year = "2024",
volume = "270",
number = "5",
publication date ="2024-10-04T00:00:00",
pages = "6674-6681",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0736-2935",
url = "https://ince.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/ince/incecp/2024/00000270/00000005/art00078",
doi = "doi:10.3397/IN_2024_3851",
author = "ARENAS, Jorge and VALDERRAMA, Chiara and CARDENAS, Jorge",
abstract = "Several studies have shown that impulsive noise can cause more damage to hearing than steady-state noise of equal energy. As a result, a large body of research has been devoted to evaluating the hazards of impulsive noise. However, work environments often have varying noise patterns,
including Gaussian background noise combined with high-level transient noises contributing to the worker's daily dose. Thus, an energy-based noise metric underestimates the risk of hearing loss unless incorporating a temporal structure correction term. Kurtosis has been reported as an effective
adjunct to energy for predicting hearing hazards from non-Gaussian noise exposures. In this work, recordings of real impulsive noise were conducted using a portable measuring system at a very high sampling frequency and using high-pressure microphones. Controlled synthetic non-Gaussian noise
was generated using these impulsive signals and steady-state background noise. After exploring the detailed temporal structure of the noise, the daily exposure time has been determined using different metrics, including kurtosis-adjusted weighted levels, weighted peak levels, and auditory
risk units. The examples presented here aim to demonstrate how kurtosis can help develop more accurate methods to prevent noise-induced hearing loss.",
}