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Overview. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 22 million workers are exposed to potentially damaging noise at work each year. Whether you work at a sports venue, on a tarmac, or operate a jackhammer—hearing loss is preventable.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Workplace Safety and Health Topic. Provides a useful list of questions to help an employer or safety professional set up and evaluate a hearing loss prevention.
Helps employers prevent occupational hearing loss among construction and demolition workers and applies to all construction and demolition workers with potential noise exposures (continuous, intermittent and impulse) of 85 decibels, A-weighted (dBA) and above.
Includes revisions to previous 1972 recommendations that go beyond attempting to conserve hearing by focusing on preventing occupational noise-induced hearing loss. U.S. Coast Guard Recommendations on Control of Excessive Noise .
Comprehensive information on noise and hearing loss topics, including FAQs, tools, publications, research, and related information. Occupational Hearing Loss (OHL) Surveillance. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Workplace Safety and Health Topic.
The ear protection provided (ear plugs, ear muffs, etc.) is effective—it is sufficient to reduce noise exposure to a level below the PEL. [5096(b)] If disposable ear plugs are used, a sufficient supply is kept on site. OSHA recommends that workers are instructed to change earplugs after each use.
OSHA’s hearing conservation program is designed to protect workers with significant occupational noise exposures from hearing impairment even if they are subject to such noise exposures over their entire working lifetimes. This publication summarizes the required component of OSHA’s hearing conservation program for general industry.
Hearing protection. Wherever it is not feasible to reduce the noise levels or duration of exposures to those specified in Table D-2, Permissible Noise Exposures, in § 1926.52, ear protective devices shall be provided and used.
Preventing Hearing Loss Caused by Chemical (Ototoxicity) and Noise Exposure.
Exposure to Noise is measured in units of sound pressure levels called decibels, using an A-weighted sound levels (dBA). There are several ways to control and reduce worker exposure to noise in a workplace where exposure has been shown to be excessive.