Simulations of Control Strategies to Reduce Sound Exposures for Music Instructors

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• Personal Author:
  Anthony, T. Renée ; Crawford KJ
• Description:
  Background: Music instructors are at risk for auditory damage due to frequent exposure to loud sound during musical instruction and performance. There is inherent variability in music instructors' sound exposures due to differences in required job tasks and musical repertoire. In our previous study, evaluating the effectiveness of different hearing protection devices (HPD) for musicians, participants preferred wearing a custom uniform attenuation earplug (UAE) for musical activities, but due to issues with sound distortion and insertion difficulty, did not wear them for all activities. Monte Carlo simulations offer a way to examine the variability in music instructors' exposures and understand the impact wearing hearing protection devices (HPD) may have on reducing those exposures. Objectives: 1) To use Monte Carlo simulations to estimate long-term risk of hearing loss in brass instructors by understanding if equivalent weekly sound exposures were likely to exceed the recommended limit of 85 dBA 2) To incorporate potential control strategies into estimation models to predict the effects that wearing HPD may have on reducing exposure. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Ear Hearing Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Protective Clothing Safety Sense Organs
• Keywords:
  Auditory System Ear Protectors Hearing Protection Musicians Noise Exposure Teaching
• Publisher:
  American Industrial Hygiene Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066085
• Citation:
  AIHce 2020: American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition, June 1-3, 2020, Virtual Conference. Falls Church, VA: American Industrial Hygiene Association, 2020 Jun; :1
• Contact Point Address:
  Kathryn J. Crawford, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  AIHce 2020: American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition, June 1-3, 2020, Virtual Conference
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:43c7ba1e40ca93e5c1ceae1f98e5608002615e6d048e2635a22395dc32c732a7268c2ecb82fe0913b49d5931546390f13ab99a0c77d0ed27d1d9c8c5c421fb86
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209154/cdc_209154_DS1.pdf
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