Reducing Employee Noise Exposure in Manufacturing: A Review of the 2014 workshop

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 (1) ◽  
pp. 5272-5282
Author(s):  
William Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Noise Control ◽  
Loss Prevention ◽  
Control Engineering ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Buy Quiet ◽  
Innovative Techniques

In 2014, the Institute for Noise Control Engineering (INCE) Foundation, the Noise Control Foundation and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health organized a meeting of industry, government, and academic experts to discuss "Reducing Noise Exposures in the Manufacturing: Best Practices, Innovative Techniques, and the Workplace of the Future." This presentation will review the content of the recommendations for hearing loss prevention programs, successful implementations for noise control engineering, and new techniques to predict noise exposures in the workplace. Efforts to develop Buy Quiet programs and to promote the Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention and Innovation will be reviewed.

Practical Noise Control

1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avery L. Owen
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Noise Control ◽  
Acoustic Energy ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
Control Effort ◽  
The People ◽  
Safety And Health

Physical damage from acoustic energy is not a new phenomenon. The first recorded event is in Biblical history when Joshua lead seven priests around Jericho seven times blowing trumpets and the people shouted and the walls fell. Ancient mortar and gun battery crews put cotton in their ears to lessen the sound, and this was a type of noise control. Since World War II much concern has been exhibited about hearing loss due to high noise levels in work environments, In order to limit the hearing loss of the average person, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 specifies the noise exposure of an employee for an eight-hour day shall not exceed 90 dBA. This has resulted in a massive noise control effort in industry. Paper published with permission.

Identification and Ranking of Noise Sources on a Jumbo Drill Machine During Operation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo E. Camargo ◽  
Jeffrey S. Peterson ◽  
Amanda S. Azman
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Drill String ◽  
Noise Sources ◽  
Transfer Path ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Drill Holes

Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is the second most prevalent illness in the mining industry. According to a study conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in which over 42,000 audiograms from metal/nonmetal miners were analyzed, approximately 70% of miners have hearing impairment as compared to 9% of non-occupationally noise-exposed workers. One of the machines used extensively in metal/nonmetal mines responsible for high noise exposure levels of its operators is the jumbo drill, used to drill holes at the mines for blasting purposes. In this context, NIOSH is conducting research to develop engineering noise controls for jumbo drills that would reduce the prevalence of hearing loss among operators of this equipment. The first step of the noise control development process consists of identifying and ranking dominant noise sources present during operation of the jumbo drill. To this end, a noise study was conducted at NIOSH’s laboratories in which a microphone phased array system was used to identify dominant noise sources, and the transfer path analysis method was used to rank these sources based on their contribution to the operator location. Results showed that the drill string and the drilling mechanism — known as the drifter — are the dominant sound-radiating components in the operation of the jumbo drill.

scholarly journals The Potension of Aditory Nerve Damage on Milling Industry Workers in Jember Regency

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Jauhar Firdaus
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Noise Level ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Nerve Damage ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Government

Jember Regency is one of the agro-industrial areas in Indonesia with a variety of activities that can produce noise including milling industry. Exposure to noise that is too strong or too long will damage the auditory nerve. The type of material being grounded determines the amount of noise produced so that the potential for hearing nerve damage also varies. This study aims to determine the level of noise produced by the milling industry and analyze the potential for hearing nerve damage in milling workers in Jember Regency. This type of research is observational analytic with cross-sectional approach. This research was conducted by measuring noise in several grinding locations in Jember that were randomly determined. Types of careful milling is grinding meat, coffee, rice, sticky rice and coconut. In addition to measuring the noise level, a short interview was also conducted with the mill workers regarding how long they worked at the mill every day. The measurement results are then analyzed descriptively and compared with standards set by the government and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). In this study it was found that the grinding of meat raw materials produced an average noise level of 88.5 db, coffee of 88.5 db, rice of 88.9 db, sticky rice of 87.3 db and coconut of 80.7 db. The duration of exposure to noise in milling meat, coffee, rice and sticky rice ranges from 9-12 hours a day. While the duration of noise exposure to coconut milling workers ranged from 6-9 hours. Therefore it can be concluded that milling meat, coffee, rice and sticky rice has the potential to cause hearing loss for workers. Keywords: agroindustry, hearing loss, noisy, milling

Guidelines for Textile Industry Noise Control

1974 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-246
Author(s):  
J. R. Bailey ◽  
C. M. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Noise Control ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Flow Diagram ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Final Consideration

A systems approach is developed for defining compliance with the noise criteria of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. The result is a flow diagram which can be used as a “road map” for determining progress toward compliance. A flow diagram is also developed as a guideline for evaluating the feasibility of engineering noise control. General suggestions are made for controlling the noise produced by air sources, oscillating bodies, frictional sources, impact, and gears. Absorption, enclosures, and barriers have also been considered as means of interrupting the path between the source and the receiver. Noise exposure has been included as an important factor with economic feasibility as a final consideration in the flow diagram.

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 FMA (Noise) 1989 to OSHA (Noise) 2019 – Is it Worth the Wait?

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ailin Razali
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Occupational Noise ◽  
Occupational Noise Exposure ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Health Practitioners

Occupational health practitioners in our country were heartened following the gazettement of the new regulation with regard to occupational noise exposure in alignment with the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA 1994) by the Attorney General’s Chamber in early June this year.

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