History of hearing and hearing loss research at NIOSH

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• Personal Author:
  Davis R
• Description:
  The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 created two new agencies, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the Department of Labor. NIOSH's mission is to protect the American worker from occupational illness, injury and death through research and education. Since its inception, NIOSH has been actively involved in hearing research. NIOSH wrote the first criteria document for Noise Induced Hearing Loss which became the bases for the Occupational Noise Exposure Standard (1971) and the Hearing Conservation Amendment (1983). In 2006, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science was contracted to do a peer review of the NIOSH Hearing Loss Prevention Program. This required the program to organize past and present research efforts into a coherent body of knowledge. We found that our research clustered around four themes: 1) Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of effective hearing loss prevention programs; 2) Reduce hearing loss through interventions targeting personal protective equipment; 3) Develop engineering controls to reduce noise exposures; 4) Improve understanding of occupational hearing loss through surveillance and investigation of risk factors. This presentation will highlight some of the hearing research efforts and partners over the 30+ years of its history. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Animals Hearing Hearing Loss Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced Laboratories Noise Occupational Health Pathology Safety
• Keywords:
  Exposure-levels Hearing-disorders Hearing-loss Laboratory-animals Noise-exposure Noise-induced-hearing-loss
• ISSN:
  0742-3152
• Publisher:
  Association for Research in Otolaryngology
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Missouri ; New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 7 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  30
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041690
• Citation:
  Abstr Midwinter Res Meet Assoc Res Otolaryngol 2007 Feb; 30:206
• Editor(s):
  Santi PA
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Performing Organization:
  Washington University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20000401
• Source Full Name:
  Abstracts of the 30th Midwinter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Febuary 10-15, 2007, Denver, Colorado
• End Date:
  20130914
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d7ac51dcc212908b11196f8cd2017e26bad2e0472d5bc896fba341c61ed8a01c508436bda0ad9770191742c3def133792a7b552cd3953ca4186d677a10a3ad5a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194183/cdc_194183_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 105.11 KB ]