ABSTRACT
Employee 678
5.1. Audiometric Testing 679
5.2. Personal Hearing Protection 680
6. Conclusion 682
Afterword 683
References 684
Prevention of hearing injury seems the obvious goal of occupational noise standards.
Damage Risk Criteria (DRC) establish the degree of risk built into regulation according
to the criteria numbers selected (1). Experience shows that a hearing conservation
program can be extremely effective in the management of risk to protect most employees,
particularly when participation is encouraged beyond criteria numbers (2). OSHA’s
amendment of March 8, 1983 (3) established a hearing conservation program that has
many good points.
