Industrial Noise Pollution and its Impacts on Workers in the
Textile Based Cottage Industries: An Empirical Study
Keywords: Industrial Noise Pollution, Impacts, Workers, Textile, Cottage
Industries.
Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology
Volume 30 , Issue 1
Aitbar Ali Abbasi , Hussain Bux Marri , Murlidhar Nebhwani ,
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