Maximum Permissible Ambient Noise Levels for Audiometric Test Rooms

No AccessAmerican Journal of AudiologyClinical Focus: Grand Rounds1 Mar 1993Maximum Permissible Ambient Noise Levels for Audiometric Test Rooms Tom Frank, PhD John D. Durrant, and Jean M. Lovrinic Tom Frank Department of Communication Disorders, 5-A Moore Building, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802 Google Scholar , John D. Durrant University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and The Eye & Ear Institute of Pittsburgh Google Scholar and Jean M. Lovrinic Temple University, Philadelphia Google Scholar https://doi.org/10.1044/1059-0889.0201.33 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In References American National Standards Institute. (1951). Audiometers for general diagnostic procedures (ASA Z24.5–1951). New York: ANSI. Google Scholar American National Standards Institute. (1960). Criteria for background noise in audiometer rooms (ANSI S3.1–1960). New York: ANSI. Google Scholar American National Standards Institute. (1969). Specification for audiometers (ANSI S3.6–1989). New York: ANSI. Google Scholar American National Standards Institute. (1977). Criteria for permissible ambient noise during audiometric testing (ANSI S3.1–1977). New York: ANSI. Google Scholar American National Standards Institute. (1983). Specification of sound level meters (ANSI S1.4–1983). New York: ANSI. Google Scholar American National Standards Institute. (1984). Method for the measurement of the real-ear attenuation of hearing protectors (ANSI S12.6–1984). New York: ANSI. Google Scholar American National Standards Institute. (1986). Specification for octave-band and fractional-octave-band analog and digital filters (ANSI S1.11–1986). New York: ANSI. Google Scholar American National Standards Institute. (1989). Specification for audiometers (ANSI S3.6–1989). New York: ANSI. Google Scholar American National Standards Institute. (1991). Maximum permissible ambient noise levels for audiometric test rooms (ANSI S3.1–1991). New York: ANSI. Google Scholar Arlinger, S. D. (1986). Sound attenuation of TDH-39 earphones in a diffuse field of narrow-band noise.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 79(1), 189–191. Google Scholar Berger, E. H., & Kerivan, J. E. (1983). Influence of physiological noise and the occlusion effect on the measurement of real-ear attenuation at threshold.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 74(1), 81–94. Google Scholar Berger, E. H. (1986). Methods of measuring the attenuation of hearing protective devices.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 79(6), 1655–1687. Google Scholar Berger, E. H., & Killion, M. C. (1989). Comparison of the noise attenuation of three audiometric earphones with additional data on masking near threshold.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 86(4), 1392–1403. Google Scholar Berry, B. P. (1973). Ambient noise limits for audiometry.National Physical Laboratory, Acoustics Report AC 60. Google Scholar Frank, T., & Wright, D. C. (1990). Attenuation provided by four different audiometric earphone systems.Ear and Hearing, 11(1), 70–78. Google Scholar International Organization for Standardization. (1981). Measurement of sound attenuation of hearing protectors-subjective method (ISO 4869). Geneva: ISO. Google Scholar Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (1983). Occupational noise exposure: Hearing conservation amendment.Federal Register, 48(46), 9738–9785. Google Scholar Williams, D. L., Frank, T., & Schmitt, M. K. (1992). Effects of ambient noise masking on earphone thresholds.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 91(4), 2457. Google Scholar Additional Resources FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byAmerican Journal of Audiology9:1 (3-8)1 Jun 2000ANSI UpdateTom Frank Volume 2 Issue 1 March 1993 Pages: 33-37 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library History Published in issue: Mar 1, 1993 Metrics Topicsasha-topicsasha-article-typesKeywordsAmbient noiseaudiometrybackground noiseearphone attenuationstandardCopyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1993 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationPDF downloadLoading ...