Safety Climate, Hearing Climate and Hearing Protection Device Use Among Transportation Road Maintainers

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• Personal Author:
  Burch KA ; Cavallari JM ; Dugan AG ; Garza JL ; Hanrahan J
• Description:
  Background: It is important to understand workplace factors including safety climate that influence hearing protection device (HPD) use. We sought to investigate the association between HPD use, safety climate, and hearing climate, a new measure specific to hearing. Methods: A survey was developed and distributed among transportation "maintainers" who perform road maintenance and repair. A new hearing climate measure was designed by adapting a safety climate measure. HPD use was assessed by asking workers how often they wear HPD while in noise. The differences in safety climate and hearing climate were compared by the frequency of HPD use using analysis of variance. Results: Among 166 maintainers, 54% reported always or almost always wearing HPD while noise exposed. High-frequency HPD users reported a statistically significant higher safety climate (P = 0.004) and hearing climate (P = 0.003). Conclusions: Hearing climate predicts the frequency of HPD use and may be a useful measure when assessing and improving hearing conservation programs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hearing Hearing Loss Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Transportation Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Hearing Climate Hearing Conservation Hearing Loss Prevention Hearing Protection Hearing Protection Device Use Noise Exposure Noise Protection Personal Protection Personal Protective Equipment PPE Protective Equipment Safety Climate Statistical Analysis Transportation Workers Work Environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; Kentucky ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  62
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20055900
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2019 Jul; 62(7):590-599
• Contact Point Address:
  Jennifer Cavallari, ScD, CIH, UConn School of Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 263 Farmington Ave, S7313, Farmington, CT 06030-8077
• Email:
  cavallari@uchc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  University of Connecticut School of Medicine
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20150901
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20180831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1b10536825769a596d2f94fce9a2f4a5d1f195cc83f67db888f9fe5c829f2e334b439c8fa31dbdd54945e6636944c148dd13665ed0d4eda44ff0fb8dc2c7fac5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213655/cdc_213655_DS1.pdf
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