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Occupationally-induced hearing loss; employers and employees in manufacturing need your help
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March 2010
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Series: NIOSH Numbered Publications
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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]
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Pages in Document:print; 2 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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NIOSHTIC Number:nn:20036597
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