NIOSH/NHCA Best Practices Workshop on Impulsive Noise

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• Personal Author:
  Franks J ; Kardous C
• Description:
  In May 2003, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Hearing Conservation Association cosponsored the Best Practices Workshop on Impulsive Noise and its Effects on Hearing. The workshop aimed to bring together the leading international experts on impulsive noise from labor, industry, and government an overview of the current state of the art concerning the effects of impulse noise on the auditory system, to develop strategies for the measurement and characterization of impulsive noise, and to identify specific goals and future research priorities. The workshop consisted of a plenary session on the first day and three working group sessions. This paper summarizes the main results of the workshop. Key issues identified by the workshop: (1) need for instrumentation and standards to accurately measure and characterize impulsive noise, (2) need to define impulsive noise metrics and apply animal modeling to humans, (3) characterizing the effect of hearing protection devices on impulse noise in relation to hearing loss, and (4) understanding hearing loss from occupational versus non-occupational exposure. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Animals Hearing Hearing Loss Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced Noise Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  Animal-studies Auditory-system Hearing-conservation Hearing-loss Hearing-protection Impulse-noise Models Noise-induced-hearing-loss Occupational-exposure
• ISSN:
  1083-7388
• Publisher:
  National Hearing Conservation Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings ; Abstract
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  22
• Volume:
  21
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030370
• Citation:
  Spectrum 2004 Feb; 21(Suppl 1):22
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Spectrum: the National Hearing Conservation Association newsletter
• Supplement:
  1
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:29ba3bba762968a85280115772e2898e521488cb3c19ad67fb922a99ce52cd927c4310790717fb38c17cc48a37b75d5beba9c3ac18de37fe149dc08ed006209c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191024/cdc_191024_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 430.64 KB ]