Health effects of occupational noise exposure on heavy-duty equipment operators and exposed workers in a mining firm in Ghana

• Francis Amanle Cudjoe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Gold Fields Ghana Limited, Tarkwa Mine, Tarkwa, Ghana

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• Douglas Aninng Opoku ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: douglasopokuaninng@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, University Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2321-387X

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• Nana Kwame Ayisi-Boateng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0961-4434

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• Joseph Osarfo,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Health Sciences, Ho, Ghana

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• Kofi Sekyere Boateng,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Lydon Nii Adjiri Sackey,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Edgar Andoh Cobbina,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Gold Fields Ghana Limited, Tarkwa Mine, Tarkwa, Ghana

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• Isaac Kofi Yankson,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Building and Road Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Alhassan Sulemana

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9679-675X

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