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What Do You Think About Hearing Conservation?
The Noise Monitor Faxback Survey Results
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AIHCE Hosts Noise Presentations
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The American Industrial Hygiene
Association has announced plans for their annual conference, to be held May 9-15 in
Atlanta. Noise related offerings include:
 | Professional Development Courses
on Noise Control Engineering, Human Vibration Exposure, Key Topics in Hearing
Conservation, Noise Exposure Measurement, and Preventing and Dealing with Claims for
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss,
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| A Technical Platform Session on
Monday, May 11 with new research on Hearing Conservation Program Management, Exposure
Assessment, and Protective Issues, |
(Conference Continued on page
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11% Safety Engineers
28% Industrial Hygienists
33% Audiologists
11% Audiometric Technicians
6% Engineers
11% Other professions
How are you doing in your hearing conservation
efforts?
We asked several questions in the survey
about hearing conservation program effectiveness and the general perception of program
efficacy. Questions and responses
(Faxback Continued on page 7)
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Earlier this year, we asked people who receive The Noise Monitor to complete a short fax-back survey about
several aspects of their hearing conservation programs. In addition, copies of the
fax-back survey were distributed at the annual conference of the National Hearing
Conservation Association (see related story on page 5). Survey results have been
compiled, and are presented here.
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Who responded?
We asked respondents to indicate their profession.
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NIOSH Controls Workshop Sets Noise Agenda for 21st Century
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One of the issues addressed at the
Workplace Controls Workshop, co-sponsored on March 10-12, 1998 by NIOSH, AIHA, and ASSE,
was the unfinished business of noise control. Session participants interacted with
invited speakers and with each other on the State
of the Art and Unfinished Business; Emerging Technologies; and Protective Equipment.
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Noise Workshop Findings
The consensus of the workshop participants was that the existing hearing conservation
paradigm has failed. Data to date show hearing loss is progressing at a higher rate
than we would expect if existing programs were effective. OSHA's lack of enforcement
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awareness effort has resulted in a
significant portion of US industry (over 90% of small and medium sized businesses per the
NOES study) not undertaking any appreciable hearing conservation effort at all.
Existing, proven technology is readily available to control exposure to hazardous noise,
but is not widely implemented. Workshop participants focused on the
(NIOSH Continued on page 2)
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