Proceedings: 1989 industrial hearing conservation conference, April 12-14, 1989.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This report contained papers presented at the 1989 Industrial Hearing Conservation Conference. Specific topics covered at the conference included the following: modern approaches to effective hearing conservation, exploring procedures for field testing the fit of earplugs, noise and hearing in Kentucky monks, factors associated with audiometric test error, military occupational health vehicle, effects of hearing protectors on communication, effectiveness of insert type hearing protectors, epidemiological analysis of hearing test results, General Motors Corporation program for occupational hearing conservation and noise control, clinical review of patterns from 300,000 industrial audiograms, evaluating hearing conservation programs, effects of hearing protectors on speech communication and warning signal perception, expert witness testimony, workers compensation requirements, and immediate feedback in audiometric testing. Abstracts available at the meeting dealt with cause and effect analysis and merit of claims, hearing loss in dairy farmers, standards and hearing conservation, the Army's HEARS program, and the detection of acoustic neuromas through hearing conservation programs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hearing Loss Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Safety Sense Organs
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Contract; Industrial-noise; Noise-exposure; Hearing-loss; Noise-induced-hearing-loss; Sensory-perceptual-disorders; Sensory-thresholds
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-82
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00212459
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, purchase order no. 93-6808, 1989 Apr; :1-82
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1989
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings: 1989 industrial hearing conservation conference, April 12-14, 1989
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/243213/cdc_243213_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]