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Personal Protective Equipment
Published in W. David Yates, Safety Professional’s Reference and Study Guide, 2020
Exposure to high noise levels can cause hearing loss or impairment. It can create physical and psychological stress. There is no cure for noise-induced hearing loss; hence, the prevention of excessive noise exposure is the only way to avoid hearing damage. Specifically, designed protection is required, depending on the type of noise encountered and the auditory condition of the employee.
Curtailing construction fatalities using analytics
Published in Imriyas Kamardeen, Preventing Workplace Incidents in Construction, 2019
Constant exposure to loud noise at construction sites is a direct cause of noise-induced hearing loss for workers. Workplace-noise induced hearing loss is an irreversible condition that can affect a person’s life greatly. Long-term exposure to loud noise makes the nerve receptors in the inner ear die irreparably (ACT 2017). A 10-year follow-up longitudinal study conducted in the US found that 30 per cent of workers whose longest job was in construction trades reported fair or poor hearing (CPWR 2013).
Protective Equipment
Published in Patrick A. Michaud, Accident Prevention and Osha Compliance, 2017
Exposure to high noise levels can cause hearing loss or impairment to your employees. It can also create physical and psychological stress. There is no cure for noise-induced hearing loss. So, prevention of excessive noise exposure is the only way to avoid hearing damage. Specifically designed protection is required, depending on the type of noise encountered.
Combining physics-based and Kriging models to improve the estimation of noise exposure
Published in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 2022
Daniel Ellis, Marcus Tatum, Chao Wang, Geb Thomas, Thomas M. Peters
Noise-induced hearing loss is one of the most common illnesses caused by workplaces in the United States. About 22 million U.S. workers are exposed to hazardous noise each year (Themann and Masterson 2019). Worldwide, 7% to 21% of the disabling hearing loss in adults is attributed to occupational noise (Nelson et al. 2005). Reducing the prevalence of hearing loss by 20% would save the U.S. economy approximately $128 billion each year (Neitzel et al. 2017). Noise-induced hearing loss can be reduced through the use of protective hearing devices (Brink et al. 2002; Hong et al. 2013). Unfortunately, 34% of U.S. workers in workplaces with hazardous noise do not wear hearing protection (Tak et al. 2009). Tailored training programs can improve the rate at which workers use hearing protection devices (Lusk et al. 2003; El Dib et al. 2011). Although the data on hearing loss is sufficient to connect hazardous occupational settings to hearing loss, data on noise exposure is blunt or incomplete (Lie et al. 2016). That lack of information has limited research on the use of tailored feedback to increase hearing protection device usage, among other research topics (Tikka et al. 2017).
Noise exposure assessment of occupational health and safety (OHS) consultants: A preliminary study
Published in Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 2022
Chun-Yip Hon, Jaskaren Randhawa, Craig Fairclough
Noise in the workplace is quite prevalent as hazardous noise levels are found in a variety of different industrial sectors.1 Excessive noise can lead to noise-induced hearing loss which is one of the most common occupational disease claims reported.1 Besides noise-induced hearing loss, exposure to occupational noise may lead to cardiovascular effects, including coronary heart disease2 and hypertension.3 Furthermore, excessive noise levels have been demonstrated to increase the probability of work-related injuries4 and reduces the communicative capacity of exposed individuals.5