Real-time video monitoring of noise in agriculture.

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• Personal Author:
  Greife, Alice L.
• Description:
  The purpose of our activity was to pilot test the application of a video monitoring technique for the assessment of exposure to noise in an agricultural work place. There has been a great deal of research of noise in an industrial setting, but looking at tasks and the assignment of specific noise values is a rather new approach in agriculture. There have been several reports of noise as a hazard in agriculture. Gregg, in 1972, did a review of active patients of an otolaryngologist and found that approximately 6 percent of those patients were being seen and treated for noise induced hearing loss. Sullivan, in 1981, did an analysis of several studies and suggested that between 6 percent and 18 percent of agricultural worksers, at sometime during their working lifetime, suffered a handicapping noise induced hearing loss. Plakke, in 1990, did a prevalence study of farmers and their spouses, and the spouses were those who were indirectly eposed to noise, that they observed operations, or were near the operations but did not directly participate, in that they did not operate the machinery. Plakke found that, as expected, the farmers had a noise induced hearing loss, which was greater in comparison to a control group of spouses of individuals who were not farmers. Broste, in 1989, observed that children frequently are in and around noise agricultural settings as well as in participating in situations which reduce noise. Broste suggested that the noise inudced hearing loss, which we are seeing in adults, may have some foundation or be initiated in these early childhood exposures.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Emergencies Emergency Responders Firefighters Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory Protective Devices Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-processes Agricultural-workers Agriculture Audiofrequency Audiological-testing Farmers Health-hazards Health-protection Hearing Hearing-disorders Hearing-impairment Hearing-loss Hearing-protection Hearing-threshold Monitoring-systems Noise Noise-induced-hearing-loss Noise-levels Noise-measurement Noise-protection Noise-waves Occupational-health Occupational-safety-programs Recording-systems Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Sound Sound-analyzers Statistical-analysis Worker-health

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• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Kentucky ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  34-37
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027100
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the NIOSH Symposium on Efforts to Prevent Injury and Disease Among Agricultural Workers, August 25-27, 1993, Lexington, Kentucky. Washington, DC: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1994 Jul; :34-37
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the NIOSH Symposium on Efforts to Prevent Injury and Disease Among Agricultural Workers
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:396466a0ac84ee3f6aadf8ae3ede6e4aeb76da0550d1517cc59e3a67c124289f448e56f3b2e87e760fd776cbf1477c358f9ee0191090e85fa71473522262623e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181291/cdc_181291_DS1.pdf
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