Noise control strategies: lessons from Safe-in-Sound excellence in hearing loss prevention awards (TM)

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• Personal Author:
  Hayden C ; Meinke, Deanna K. ; Morata, Thais C.
• Description:
  In the environmental and occupational health arenas, recognition of benchmarks, awards, and incentive schemes are receiving increasing attention for their role in promoting excellence and adoption of preventive interventions. Few awards or incentive programs exist worldwide specifically focused on noise control and the prevention of occupational hearing loss. In 2007, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) partnered with the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) to create the Safe-in-Sound Award(TM) for Excellence and Innovation in Hearing Loss Prevention (http://www.safeinsound.us). The objectives of this award program are to recognize effective and innovative initiatives, and to share leading edge information to a broader community. Fifteen awards have been presented to date. The award process has resulted in the acquisition of high quality field data related to noise exposure monitoring and successful noise control outcomes leading to the elimination of the need for a hearing conservation program or in the reduction of number of workers enrolled in the program. In addition, award recipients demonstrated a strong return on investment from noise control initiatives such as "Buy-Quiet" and "Quiet-by-Design". A summary of specific strategies and examples of outcomes are provided in an effort to more widely disseminate the practicality, feasibility, and significant individual worker impacts of noise control in the workplace. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hearing Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Control-systems Control-technology Environmental-technology Equipment-design Hearing-conservation Injury-prevention Noise-control Noise-exposure Noise-induced-hearing-loss Safety-programs Sound

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• Publisher:
  The Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA (INCE/USA)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043666
• Citation:
  NOISE-CON 2013. The 28th Conference of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, August 26 - 28, 2013, Denver, Colorado. Washington, DC: The Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA, 2013 Aug; :NC13-194
• Contact Point Address:
  Deanna K. Meinke, Ph.D, University of Northern Colorado, Audiology & Speech-Language Sciences, Campus Box 140, Gunter Hall 1500, Greeley, CO 80639
• Email:
  Deanna.Meinke@unco.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Manufacturing
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NOISE-CON 2013. The 28th Conference of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, August 26 - 28, 2013, Denver, Colorado
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195502/cdc_195502_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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