The problems of hearing impairment in the flying staff of commercial aviation in Russia

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The authors discuss the problems pertaining to the growing incidence of hearing impairment in the members of the flying staff employed in commercial aviation of Russia and the main criteria used to elucidate the causes behind occupational diseases of the organs of hearing. Special attention is given to the principal normative documents regulating the methodological basis on which the acoustic factor in the aircraft cockpit is evaluated, peculiarities of occupational sensorineural hearing impairment and the methods for its detection. The main errors in the determination of the relationship between the working conditions and the diseases of the organs of hearing are discussed.

Keywords:

occupational impairment of hearing

members of the flying staff employed in commercial aviation

occupational noise

medical examination

professional suitability

determination of the relationship between diseases of the organs of hearing and professional activities

Authors:

Pankova V.B.

Vserossiĭskiĭ nauchno-issledovatel'skiĭ institut zheleznodorozhnoĭ gigieny Rospotrebnadzora, Moskva

SPIN RSCI: 5027-6335
Scopus AuthorID: 7006546711
ResearcherID: R-9083-2016
ORCID: 0000-0002-3035-4710

Bushmanov A.Iu.

Federal'nyĭ mediko-biofizicheskiĭ tsentr im. A.I. Burnaziana FMBA Rossii, Moskva, Rossiia, 123182

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