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
  • Hearing
  • Noise
  • 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
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226971/cdc_226971_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 417.82 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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