ArticleOccupational and environmental medicine2019
Patterns and trends in OSHA occupational noise exposure measurements from 1979 to 2013.
Article in Occupational and environmental medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06729632 (Non-Invasive System to Deliver Therapeutic Hypothermia for Protection Against Noise-Induced Hearing Loss), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers.
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Non-Invasive System to Deliver Therapeutic Hypothermia for Protection Against Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
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- Prerequisite for Imputing Non-detects among Airborne Samples in OSHA's IMIS Databank: Prediction of Sample's Volume.Annals of work exposures and health · 2023Article
- Development and initial validation of the Chinese Version of the Noise Exposure Questionnaire (C-NEQ).BMC public health · 2022Article
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- Analysis of Early Biomarkers Associated With Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Among Shipyard Workers.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Effect of Unmeasured Time Hours on Occupational Noise Exposure Assessment in the Shipbuilding Process in Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- An overview of occupational noise-induced hearing loss among workers: epidemiology, pathogenesis, and preventive measures.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2020Review
- Early hearing slope as a predictor of subsequent hearing trajectory in a noise-exposed occupational cohort.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2019Article
- Audiometric notch for the prediction of early occupational hearing loss and its association with the interleukin-1beta genotype.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesNoise is one of the most common exposures, and occupational noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is highly prevalent. In addition to NIHL, noise is linked to numerous non-auditory health effects. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) maintains the Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) database of compliance-related measurements performed in various industries across the USA. The goal of the current study was to describe and analyse personal noise measurements available through the OSHA IMIS, identifying industries with elevated personal noise levels or increasing trends in worker exposure over time.
methodsThrough a Freedom of Information Act request, we obtained OSHA's noise measurements collected and stored in IMIS between 1979 and 2013 and analysed permissible exposure limit (PEL) and action level (AL) criteria measurements by two-digit industry code.
resultsThe manufacturing industry represented 87.8% of the 93 920 PEL measurements and 84.6% of the 58 073 AL measurements. The highest mean noise levels were found among the agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting industry for PEL (93.1 dBA) and the mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction group for AL (93.3 dBA). Overall, measurements generally showed a decreasing trend in noise levels and exceedances of AL and PEL by year, although this was not true for all industries.
conclusionsOur results suggest that, despite reductions in noise over time, further noise control interventions are warranted both inside and outside of the manufacturing industry. Further reductions in occupational noise exposures across many industries are necessary to continue to reduce the risk of occupational NIHL.
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