Progress on the US National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health hearing loss prevention strategic plan

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• Personal Author:
  Murphy, William J. ; Thompson JK
• Description:
  In 2006, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) entered the second decade of the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA). NORA is a partnership program to stimulate innovative research and improved workplace practices. NORA has served as an organizing framework to plan and conduct critical occupational research and to promote expanded partnerships between the stakeholders such as universities, large and small businesses, professional societies, other government agencies (federal, state, and local), and worker organizations. Following a review by the National Academies Institute of Medicine of the NIOSH Hearing Loss Research program, a comprehensive strategic plan was developed for the Hearing Loss Prevention cross-sector. Six strategic goals were identified: 1) improved surveillance of occupational hearing loss data; 2) reduced noise emission levels from equipment focused on mining, construction, and manufacturing; 3) development of hearing protector technology; 4) development best practices for hearing loss prevention programs; 5) identification of hearing loss risk factors; and 6) development of updated hearing damage risk criteria that consider exposures incurred during youth, adolescence, and adulthood. This presentation will review progress towards meeting these goals and propose a research agenda for the third decade of NORA research in hearing loss prevention. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Hearing Hearing Loss Mining Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Preventive Medicine Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Emission-sources Equipment-design Exposure-levels Hearing-loss Hearing-protection Mining-equipment Noise-exposure Noise-sources Preventive-medicine Risk-factors Surveillance Work-practices Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  1021-643X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Pennsylvania
• 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:
  7-16
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047111
• Citation:
  Noise News Int 2015 Sep; 23(3):7-16
• Contact Point Address:
  William J. Murphy, NIOSH, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Applied Research and Technology, 1090 Tusculum Road MS C-27, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  wjm4@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Manufacturing
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Noise/News International
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8aed197cc8746401b4c019316a6b5df42d60c7a89fc3aefae75b76ea249307789829bb40c5fbaefa587db945bcba1de5e1fe3e8089ecbf53222197eac802ca0a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202303/cdc_202303_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.90 MB ]