Hearing Loss and Hearing Handicap in Users of Recreational Firearms

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 160-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Stewart ◽  
Rebecca Pankiw ◽  
Mark E. Lehman ◽  
Thomas H. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
American Academy ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Pure Tone ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
The Self ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Hearing Handicap

This investigation sought to establish the prevalence of hearing loss and hearing handicap in a population of 232 recreational firearm users. Hearing handicap was calculated based on four methods using pure-tone threshold data from the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and American Speech-Language and Hearing Association in addition to the self-report Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults-Screener (HHIA-S). Subjects (45 female and 187 male) ranging in age from 13 to 77 years (mean = 40 years, SD = 15.1) completed a short questionnaire regarding demographics and shooting practices followed by pure-tone air audiometry at Occupational Safety and Health Administration test frequencies of 500 to 6000 Hz. A total of 177 who exhibited varying degrees of hearing loss also received a face-to-face administration of the HHIA-S. Audiometric and HHIA-S results revealed that both high-frequency hearing loss and hearing handicap varied significantly as functions of age and occupation. Significant gender effects were observed audiometrically but not as a function of hearing handicap. HHIA-S scores varied significantly as a function of high-frequency (1000–4000 Hz) hearing loss. Correlation coefficients between the four different pure-tone methods of calculating hearing handicap and the self-reported HHIA-S were highest for pure-tone methods that do not employ 500 Hz in the calculation.

scholarly journals Step-by-step algorithm for diagnosis, examination and assessment of professional suitability in noise-induced hearing loss

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-61
Author(s):  
Vera B. Pankova ◽  
Irina N. Fedina ◽  
Pavel V. Serebpyakov ◽  
Leonid L. Volokhov ◽  
Natalya G. Bomshteyn
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing ◽  
Noise Induced Hearing Loss ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Step Algorithm

Objectives - to present a step-by-step algorithm for diagnosis, examination and assessment of professional suitability in noise-induced hearing loss. Material and methods. A group of experts analysed the evidence base, consisting of more than 200 cases of primary diagnosed occupational sensorineural hearing loss (OHL), registered by various institutes for occupational safety and health. Also, the methodological instructions on the main issues of occupational hearing loss examination were regarded. Results. The methodological and regulatory documents were developed and put in practice, allowing the hygienic and clinical specialists to follow the step-by-step diagnostic and examination algorithms for OHL. Conclusion. All specialists, involved in the diagnosis, in the expertise of the occupational impact, the assessment of professional suitability, the OHL prophylaxis, should use the unified step-by-step algorithms, presented in the regulatory and methodological documents of federal and professional significance.

scholarly journals Engagement of Occupational Safety and Health at Mahkamah’s Welding Worker Medan

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
Eka Mahyuni ◽  
Kalsum ◽  
Muhammad Makmur Sinaga
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
The Self ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Physical Risk ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Rest Time ◽  
Self Protection ◽  
Better Than

Welding worker was not the easy task because it has a very high physical risk and the process requires special skills and equipment to prevent accident exposed. This devotional activity is carried out in the welding industry at Jl. Mahkamah with two partners, namely CV. M. Nauli and CV. Cahaya. The aim of training activity made the worker able to analyze the hazards in the workplace so that it will be more careful in their work. The result show that the training could develop the worker to be aware about safety and health work patterns. In order to support the work in accordance with occupational safety and health standards, workers are also given pocket books that contain safety and health working methods and also given the self-protection of welding like welding clothes, welding gloves, welding mask, welding glasses and masks. Based on the evaluation of activities, it show that the worker has develop and always using the self protector in their work evenly. It build the good collaboration between them and they are could arrage the rest time with ergonomics relaxation in 5-10 minutes. The workshop station looks better than before and the workshop doing good house keeping before and after their work.

Risk on All Sides, Eyes Wide Open

2019 ◽  
pp. 149-186
Author(s):  
Paul Apostolidis
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
The Self ◽  
Day Laborers ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Physical Vulnerability ◽  
Safety And Health

The theme of facing “risk on all sides” imbues day laborers’ reflections about occupational safety and health (OSH) hazards. This theme expresses a contradictory structure of body-time pairing workers’ incessant physical vulnerability with suddenly arising dangers and traumatic incidents. Workers vow to keep “eyes wide open,” striving to protect themselves through temporalized practices of personal responsibility, although employment power-relations induce workers to violate their own principles. Drastically erratic employment and deportation threats make day laborers’ OSH predicament exceptional, even among nonwhite working-class groups. Yet the themes also reflect the pervasive proliferation of OSH risks in “fissured workplaces,” as conceptualized by David Weil, under post-Fordism and financialized capitalism. Day laborers further help generate the morally stigmatizing discourses of “slow death,” theorized by Berlant, that produce the self-undermining subjectivities needed by this order. These theme-theory resonances nonetheless invite workers at large to oppose the transmutation of capital risk into workers’ bodily risk.

scholarly journals The removal of airborne SARS-CoV-2 and other microbial bioaerosols by air filtration on COVID-19 surge units

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Conway Morris ◽  
Katherine Sharrocks ◽  
Rachel Bousfield ◽  
Leanne Kermack ◽  
Mailis Maes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Uv Light ◽  
Ultra Violet ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Air Filtration ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Pcr Assays ◽  
Hospital Acquired

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed the respiratory isolation capacity in hospitals; many wards lacking high-frequency air changes have been repurposed for managing patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 requiring either standard or intensive care. Hospital-acquired COVID-19 is a recognised problem amongst both patients and staff, with growing evidence for the relevance of airborne transmission. This study examined the effect of air filtration and ultra-violet (UV) light sterilisation on detectable airborne SARS-CoV-2 and other microbial bioaerosols. Methods We conducted a crossover study of portable air filtration and sterilisation devices in a repurposed surge COVID ward and surge ICU. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) cyclonic aerosol samplers and PCR assays were used to detect the presence of airborne SARS-CoV-2 and other microbial bioaerosol with and without air/UV filtration. Results Airborne SARS-CoV-2 was detected in the ward on all five days before activation of air/UV filtration, but on none of the five days when the air/UV filter was operational; SARS-CoV-2 was again detected on four out of five days when the filter was off. Airborne SARS-CoV-2 was infrequently detected in the ICU. Filtration significantly reduced the burden of other microbial bioaerosols in both the ward (48 pathogens detected before filtration, two after, p=0.05) and the ICU (45 pathogens detected before filtration, five after p=0.05). Conclusions These data demonstrate the feasibility of removing SARS-CoV-2 from the air of repurposed surge wards and suggest that air filtration devices may help reduce the risk of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2.

Noise Pollution

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-189
Author(s):  
Francis X. Hursey ◽  
William E. Powers
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Sound Level ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Infant Exposure ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Federal Standard ◽  
Working Adult

The potentially dangerous results of infant exposure to high intensity and/or high frequency sound have been well documented.1-3 The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) is the only federal standard establishing noise level limits. OSHA allows 90 decibels on the "A" scale (90 dB(A)) exposure for eight hours for a working adult. The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Fetus and Newborns has recommended 75 dB(a) as the maximum sound level permitted in the nursery and inside incubators.

Factors Affecting Hearing Aid Adoption by Adults With High-Frequency Hearing Loss: The Beaver Dam Offspring Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Jacqueline M. Weycker ◽  
Lauren K. Dillard ◽  
Alex Pinto ◽  
Mary E. Fischer ◽  
Karen J. Cruickshanks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Pure Tone ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Pure Tone Average ◽  
Beaver Dam ◽  
Hearing Handicap ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Hearing loss (HL) is common among middle-age and older adults, but hearing aid adoption is low. The purpose of this study was to measure the 10-year incidence of hearing aid adoption in a sample of primarily middle-age adults with high-frequency HL and identify factors associated with hearing aid adoption. Method This study included 579 adults (ages 34–80 years) with high-frequency pure-tone average > 25 dB HL (3–8 kHz) enrolled in the Beaver Dam Offspring Study. Hearing aid adoption was measured at 5- and 10-year follow-up examinations. Cox discrete-time proportional hazards models were used to evaluate factors associated with hearing aid adoption (presented as hazards ratios [HRs] and 95% confidence intervals [95% CI]). Results The 10-year cumulative incidence of hearing aid adoption was 14 per 1,000 person years. Factors significantly associated with adoption in a multivariable model were higher education (vs. 16+ years; 0–12: HR: 0.36, 95% CI [0.19, 0.69]; 13–15: HR: 0.52, 95% CI [0.27, 0.98]), worse high-frequency pure-tone average (per +1 dB; HR: 1.04, 95% CI [1.02, 1.06]), self-reported hearing handicap (screening versions of the Hearing Handicap Inventory score > 8; HR: 1.85, 95% CI [1.02, 3.38]), answering yes to “Do friends and relatives think you have a hearing problem?” (HR: 3.18, 95% CI [1.60, 6.33]) and using closed captions (HR: 2.86, 95% CI [1.08, 7.57]). Effects of age and sex were not significant. Conclusions Hearing aid adoption rates were low. Hearing sensitivity, socioeconomic status, and measures of the impact of HL on daily life were associated with adoption. Provider awareness of associated factors can contribute to timely and appropriate intervention.

Noise Pollution

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 939-939
Author(s):  
Francis X. Hursey ◽  
William E. Powers
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Sound Level ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Infant Exposure ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Federal Standard ◽  
Working Adult

The potentially dangerous results of infant exposure to high-intensity and/or high-frequency sound have been well documented.1-3 The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) is the only federal standard establishing noise level limits. The OSHA allows an exposure of 90 dB on the "A" scale (90dB[A]) for eight hours for a working adult. The American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Fetus and Newborn has recommended 75 dB(A) as the maximum sound level permitted in the nursery and inside incubators.

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