Testing effectiveness of earmuffs during construction tasks while wearing eye protection: effects of selected eyewear on the noise insertion loss of selected earmuffs

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• Personal Author:
  Caporali Filho SA
• Description:
  Noise induced hearing loss is a major construction occupational hazard, and OSHA requires the use of hearing protection for workers exposed to hazardous noise levels. In construction, many loud tasks like drilling, cutting and grinding also require that workers don eye protection. Previous studies suggest that the combination of eye protection and earmuffs can reduce the effectiveness of earmuffs by breaking their "seal" around the ear. Researchers measured earmuff performance (Noise Insertion Loss or NIL) provided by three different commercially available earmuffs when study participants were exposed to noise coming from four different power tools, while wearing six different models of eye protection and assuming five different neck postures. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Ear Education Eye Health Promotion Hearing Hearing Loss Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Safety Safety Management Sense Organs Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Ear-protection Ear-protectors Equipment-reliability Eye-protection Eye-protective-equipment Goggles Health-programs Hearing-conservation Hearing-loss Hearing-protection Injury-prevention Noise-control Noise-exposure Noise-induced-hearing-loss Noise-levels Noise-protection Performance-capability Personal-protective-equipment Safety-education Safety-programs Safety-research Standards Training Work-environment Worker-health

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Puerto Rico
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046264
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2015 Jan; :1
• Email:
  sergio.caporali@upr.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Testing effectiveness of earmuffs during construction tasks while wearing eye protection: effects of selected eyewear on the noise insertion loss of selected earmuffs
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:75070502e5c286d6b6f4cae8e3318cfeecb6950b5ef6fe7767013873739e19585e350576ac80471b51c168dabebaa383d9790f228da6330d2390cbbf2f5542d1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201370/cdc_201370_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 46.93 KB ]