What Do We Know About Hearing Protector Comfort

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• Personal Author:
  Davis, Rickie R. ; Davis, Rickie R.
• Description:
  The purpose of the present article is to review comfort studies on hearing protector devices. Comfort is probably the most important dimension for long-term worker acceptance and effective wear of hearing protectors in noise. A short digression has been made to introduce comfort work from the textile and clothing industries where models of comfort have been attempted and comfort research is much more sophisticated. Finally, presented are some recent efforts by NIOSH to examine issues of hearing protector comfort in greater detail. These efforts include a field study of a semicustom earplug hearing protector. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hearing Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Comfort Comfort-zones Equipment-design Hearing-conservation Hearing-protection Hearing Protectors Occupational-exposure Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Personal Protective Equipment Protective-equipment Worker-health Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  1463-1741
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  83-89
• Volume:
  10
• Issue:
  40
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034935
• Citation:
  Noise Health 2008 Jul-Sep; 10(40):83-89
• Contact Point Address:
  Rickie R. Davis, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Applied Research and Technology, Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch, Hearing Loss Prevention Team, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998
• Email:
  rrd1@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing ; Manufacturing
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Noise & Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:377077cdcdff20ba69eda51de8f1cc8b45a72aae96feaf657ccd74549e6e1dd08ebc93943135e5ea8577d8d55c0530645886253475883d9f0ac42deaf4f365c1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186950/cdc_186950_DS1.pdf
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