Referee whistles have been suggested as a significant contributor to noise-induced hearing loss. Thirteen models of sport whistles were tested for sound power with a 3-m hemispherical array of 19 microphones. The whistler produced nine tweets of low, medium, and high effort with two samples of each whistle model. Sound power levels ranged between 74 and 115 dB re 1 pW. The low, medium, and high effort tweets had average power levels of 85 ± 6 dB, 100 ± 6 dB, and 110 ± 4 dB, respectively. Preliminary damage-risk analysis of the whistle impulses yield varied estimates for the allowable number of tweets before auditory damage might be expected. For the Auditory Hazard Assessment Algorithm, between 4 and 66 tweets may exceed the daily exposure threshold. Based upon the amount of eight-hour equivalent A-weighted energy, approximately 120 to 500 tweets would exceed the daily 85 dBA exposure limit. The directivity of the sound power measurements will also be examined, and risk of hearing loss will be discussed.
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March 01 2019
Referee whistles Part II—Outdoor sound power assessment Free
William J. Murphy;
William J. Murphy
Hearing Loss Prevention Team, Ctr. for Disease Control and Prevention, National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, 1090 Tusculum Ave., Mailstop C-27, Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998, [email protected]
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Stephen M. Tasko;
Stephen M. Tasko
Speech Pathol. & Audiol., Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI
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Donald Finan;
Donald Finan
Audiol. & Speech-Lang. Sci., Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
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Deanna K. Meinke;
Deanna K. Meinke
Audiol. & Speech-Lang. Sci., Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
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Michael Stewart;
Michael Stewart
Dept. of Commun. Disord., Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI
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James E. Lankford;
James E. Lankford
School of Allied Health and Communicative Disord., Northern Illinois Univ., Dekalb, IL
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Adam R. Campbell;
Adam R. Campbell
Hearing Loss Prevention Team, Ctr. for Disease Control and Prevention, National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH
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Gregory Flamme
Gregory Flamme
SASRAC, Forest Grove, OR
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William J. Murphy
Hearing Loss Prevention Team, Ctr. for Disease Control and Prevention, National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, 1090 Tusculum Ave., Mailstop C-27, Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998, [email protected]
Stephen M. Tasko
Speech Pathol. & Audiol., Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI
Donald Finan
Audiol. & Speech-Lang. Sci., Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
Deanna K. Meinke
Audiol. & Speech-Lang. Sci., Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
Michael Stewart
Dept. of Commun. Disord., Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI
James E. Lankford
School of Allied Health and Communicative Disord., Northern Illinois Univ., Dekalb, IL
Adam R. Campbell
Hearing Loss Prevention Team, Ctr. for Disease Control and Prevention, National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH
Gregory Flamme
SASRAC, Forest Grove, OR
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 145, 1816 (2019)
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William J. Murphy, Stephen M. Tasko, Donald Finan, Deanna K. Meinke, Michael Stewart, James E. Lankford, Adam R. Campbell, Gregory Flamme; Referee whistles Part II—Outdoor sound power assessment. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 March 2019; 145 (3_Supplement): 1816. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5101636
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