• T. Naidu
• N.Ramanjaneyulu
• CH.venkatesh

The increases mechanization in the opencast mines operations supports the production of large level of the noise. Exposure of miners to high concentrations of noise may cause occupational health hazards like pneumoconiosis and noise induced hearing loss and other allied health risk. Health risk to miners from dust depends on concentration and duration of exposure whereas noise induced hearing loss depends on sound pressure level, frequency and exposure level of workers. Therefore, the knowledge of the accurate noise level is key concern in today’s mining industry. In this regard, an attempt has been made to investigate the noise level survey at the different places of the mines. The measured locations for noise survey are, drilling place, blasting place, quarry below the ground and quarry above the ground. Among them, the blasting zone area was recorded as the highly noisy area which was measured at 128.2 dBA.

Noise level, open cast mines, drilling, blasting area, Miners health.

"ASSESMENT OF NOISE LEVEL IN THE WORK PLACE OF AN OPEN CAST MINES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.576-578, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905184.pdf

"ASSESMENT OF NOISE LEVEL IN THE WORK PLACE OF AN OPEN CAST MINES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp576-578, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905184.pdf