Hearing protection devices decrease the intensity of sound that reaches the eardrum. Hearing Protectors come in two forms: earplugs and earmuffs. Earplugs are ...

The Technical Section of Oregon OSHA produced this fact sheet to highlight health and safety programs and rules. The information is intended to supplement the ...

Hearing Conservation Program · Hearing Loss in Construction · Standards

▻ Shooting sports. NIDCD Fact Sheet | Hearing and Balance. Hearing Protectors. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ∙ National Institutes of Health.

EH&S implemented the hearing conservation program to preventing hearing loss from noise exposure related to WSU employment. The goal is to identify employees ...

Hearing Conservation Programs require employers to measure noise levels, provide free annual hearing exams and free hearing protection, provide training, and ...

Workers with a 90 dB exposure must wear the protection in the noisy areas. All exposures are based on eight-hour time-weighted average work periods.

Hearing protector fit testing is a procedure used to quantitively measure the amount of noise reduction a specific hearing protector is providing a user. Fit ...

Hearing Conservation Fact Sheet. Introduction. Noise levels capable of causing permanent damage to hearing can be generated by a wide variety of sources ...