Occupationally-Induced Hearing Loss: Employers and Employees in Manufacturing Need Your Help

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; National Occupational Research Agenda ; NORA Manufacturing Sector Council
• Description:
  "There are an estimated 16 million people working in the Manufacturing Sector, which accounts for approximately 13% of the U.S. workforce. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, occupational hearing loss is the most commonly recorded occupational illness in manufacturing (17,700 cases out of 59,100 cases), accounting for 1 in 9 recordable illnesses. More than 72% of these occur among workers in Manufacturing. These numbers are particularly disturbing considering that a person's hearing loss must be determined to be work-related and the hearing loss must be severe enough that the worker has become hearing impaired, in order to be OSHA-recordable. Many more workers would have measurable occupational hearing loss but would not yet have become hearing impaired." - NIOSHTIC-2 ; At head of title: "Manufacturing Sector: Occupational Safety and Health Research Needs and Partnerships for the Second Decade of NORA." ; "The NORA Manufacturing Sector Council has developed goals to enhance the state of knowledge related to reducing the incidence and prevalence of cancer due to exposures in the manufacturing sector." - p. 2
• Subjects:
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Hearing Disorders
  • Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced
  • Occupational Diseases
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20036597
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5810/cdc_5810_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.57 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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