Hearing Safety in Agriculture

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• Corporate Authors:
  University of Texas at Tyler. Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention, and Education
• Description:
  Agricultural tasks often put workers' hearing at risk. Tractors, machinery and animals can all create loud noises that damage hearing. You should know: Hearing loss can be permanent and irreversible. Noise induced hearing loss is preventable. Hearing protection will decrease noise and sound, not eliminate it. You will still be able to hear voices and your equipment. A variety of hearing protection devices are available, including formable earplugs, premolded earplugs, canal caps and ear muffs. It is important to only use products designed for hearing protection; cotton balls will not protect your hearing. In addition to wearing hearing protection, CDC/NIOSH recommends that you become aware of noisy tasks, make hearing protection convenient, reduce equipment noise through regular maintenance, limit your exposure, have you hearing tested and keep children away from noisy situations. Hearing protection is an inexpensive way to maintain optimum use of one of your basic senses. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Health Promotion Hearing Hearing Loss Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Industry Agricultural Machinery Agricultural Safety Health Promotion Hearing Conservation Hearing Loss Prevention Hearing Protection Injury Prevention Noise Exposure Public Health
• Publisher:
  The Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention, and Education
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053598
• Citation:
  Monthly Safety Blast. Tyler, TX: The Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention, and Education, 2010 Feb; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Texas Health Center at Tyler
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Monthly Safety Blast
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e8041f2031aaa394a90062f0f45af6c400a7a9192e5f8efb5674d9e4c5d5b08157a6c27f6dfd88b236169c2edb74165a790436f411301616d792e000c686f2a6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/216325/cdc_216325_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 112.16 KB ]