Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-89-100-2040: Ministry of Health - St. Lucia; St. Lucia, West Indies

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• Personal Author:
  Tubbs, Randy L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from the Ministry of Health, an evaluation was made of possible hearing loss among employees from several industries in St. Lucia, West Indies, as part of an effort by NIOSH to develop a hearing conservation program for this area. Audiometric testing was conducted at 11 of the original 12 industries surveyed for worker exposure to noise and also at the international airport at View Fort. These industries included paper converting (SIC-2676) and cardboard box manufacturing (SIC-2653), electrical power generation (SIC-4911), cigarette manufacturing (SIC- 2111), beer brewing (SIC-2082), bra and panty manufacturing (SIC- 2342), glove manufacturing (SIC-2353) electrical component assembly (SIC-3674), printing (SIC-2741), and soft drink bottling (SIC-2086). The overall results did not demonstrate any significant hearing impairment, but they did show a pattern consistent with the beginnings of noise induced permanent threshold shifts. The author recommends that the Ministry of Health should continue its efforts to establish hearing conservation programs.
• Subjects:
  Ear Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced Noise Occupational Health Paper Safety Sense Organs Textile Industry Tobacco Products
• Keywords:
  Airports, Flying Fields, And Airport Terminal Services Audiograms Bottled And Canned Soft Drinks And Carbonated Waters Brassieres, Girdles, And Allied Garments Caribbean Cigarettes Corrugated And Solid Fiber Boxes Dress And Work Gloves Electric Services Hazard-Confirmed Hearing Loss HETA-89-100-2040 Malt Beverages Miscellaneous Publishing NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Noise Noise-exposure Noise-induced-hearing-loss OSHA Region 9 Paper-manufacturing-industry Sanitary Paper Products Semiconductors And Related Devices Textiles-industry

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA891002040
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  West Indies
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  27 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Emmanuel, Edward G. ; Baptiste, Nerissa J. ; Joseph, David ; Charlery, Julian ; Moffat, Nicholas
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00194788
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91-115345
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, Ohio: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 89-100-2040, 1990 May ; :1-27
• Editor(s):
  Morris, Linda J.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1990
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2676 - Sanitary paper products - (SIC) ; 2653 - Corrugated and solid fiber boxes - (SIC) ; 4911 - Electric services - (SIC) ; 2111 - Cigarettes - (SIC) ; 2082 - Malt beverages - (SIC) ; 2342 - Bras, girdles, and allied garments - (SIC) ; 3674 - Semiconductors and related devices - (SIC) ; 2741 - Miscellaneous publishing - (SIC) ; 2086 - Bottled and canned soft drinks - (SIC) ; 2381 - Fabric dress and work gloves - (SIC) ; 4581 - Airports, flying fields, & services - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:05fa20bedd6f2ab9b7b9cd9fbcd63ed926799adeefc25a8e97d3585c45751ac6b3475bf8dc5f80b5f2789866569b00d43e7f803cb025a5e7653bb1f9dcdf7e08
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171729/cdc_171729_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 280.98 KB ]