New from NIOSH: Inquiring Ears Want to Know: A Fact Sheet About Your Hearing Test

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• Personal Author:
  Hudak, Roberta L. ; Randolph, Robert F. ; Schulz TY
• Description:
  Most miners these days will get an audiogram (hearing test) at some point, but what do the results mean? As NIOSH researchers, we've conducted thousands of hearing tests with miners. We noticed that the same questions keep coming up, so we compiled this fact sheet. For more details on audiograms for miners, check the MSHA publication, Audiometric Testing Reference Guide for MSHA's Occupational Noise Exposure Standard available online at: http://www.msha.gov/1999noise/audiobook731.pdf [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hearing Hearing Loss Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced Noise Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Hearing-acuity Hearing-conservation Hearing-impairment Hearing-loss Hearing-tests Noise-exposure Noise-induced-hearing-loss
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  0271-3888
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article ; Lay Publication
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034008
• Citation:
  Holmes Saf Assn Bull 2008 Jan/Feb; :10
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Holmes Safety Association Bulletin
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226971/cdc_226971_DS1.pdf
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