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1 Zamek Ksi?? - Wa?brzych, Poland, 6-9 June 2010 ABSTRACT Within occupational medical care fair accurate specifications for the risk assessment are needed to enable the estimation of noise-induced aggravation in addition to an already existing hearing deterioration. Therefore within occupational medical care and within the framework of the appraisal of occupational hearing impairment a noise dose index is required, which determines the long-term occupational noise dose according to acknowledged scientific findings using the details presented on the exposure periods or expected coming periods. Noise-induced equivalent hearing threshold shift curves were calculated based on ISO 1999:1990. The Noise Dose Index used was developed for the report of the occupational noise dose, which allows to consider hearing-threshold-shift equivalently the noise exposures of all periods. For its calculation procedures have to be used, which are different from those known for the energy equivalent approach INTRODUCTION SPECIFIC VALUES FOR NOISE EXPOSURE Within the risk assessment at work the noise exposure level (LEX,8h) according to Directive 2003/10/EC [1] is consulted to decide whether exposure action values are exceeded and measures of noise control have to be applied. With regard to LEX,8h the Directive [1] refers within its “Definitions” to ISO 1999:1990 [2], point 3.6: NOISE DOSE INDEX BASED ON HEARING DETERIORATION EQUIVALENCIES ADAPTED FROM ISO 1999 Martin LIEDTKE Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA) Alte Heerstrasse 111, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany martin.liedtke@dguv.de 2 ? ? ?? ? ?+= 0 ,8, lg10 T TLL eTAeqhEX e (1) Where Te is the effective duration of the working day and T0 is the reference duration (= 8 h). LAeq,T is defined as follows [2]: ( ) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? = ∫ 2 1 2 0 2 12 , 1log10 t t A TAeq dtp tp tt L (2