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- Title
The Impact of Annual Audiograms on Employee’s Habits and Awareness Regarding Hearing Protection and Noise Induced Hearing Loss, On and Off the Job.
- Authors
Leshchinsky, Ariel
- Abstract
Noise-induced hearing loss occurs among workers across a wide spectrum of industries. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether annual hearing testing contributed to a change in employees’ habits and awareness and aimed to evaluate the use of hearing protection at work and at home. Employees enrolled in a university’s hearing conservation program (HCP) were anonymously surveyed regarding their hearing protection habits and awareness of noise exposures on and off the job using a Likert-type scale. Approximately half were “very much” concerned about hearing loss over time. Evidence supports that annual testing, part of the workplace HCP, also led over half of participants to change their habits at work and at home. Awareness of noise exposures increased both at home and at work with annual testing. Overall, the HCP in this particular setting was associated with improved on-the-job and home hearing protection use.
- Subjects
NOISE-induced deafness prevention; AUDIOMETRY; BEHAVIOR modification; HABIT; HEALTH education; HEALTH promotion; OCCUPATIONAL health services; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; SCALE analysis (Psychology); UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; WORK environment; OCCUPATIONAL hazards; ENVIRONMENTAL exposure; HOME environment; CONTINUING education units; HEARING protection; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Workplace Health & Safety, 2018, Vol 66, Issue 4, p201
- ISSN
2165-0799
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2165079917743020