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Criteria for a recommended standard... occupational noise exposure, revised criteria 1998.

NIOSH

Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 98-126, 1998 Jun; :1-132

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/98-126/

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This criteria document reevaluates and reaffirms the recommended exposure limit (REL) for occupational noise exposure established by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in 1972. The REL is 85 decibels, A-weighted, as an 8-hr time-weighted average (85 dBA as an 8- hr TWA). Exposures at or above this level are hazardous. The recommendations in this document go beyond attempts to conserve hearing by focusing on prevention of occupational NIHL. For workers whose noise exposures equal or exceed 85 dBA, NIOSH recommends a hearing loss prevention program (HLPP) that includes exposure assessment, engineering and administrative controls, proper use of hearing protectors, audiometric evaluation, education and motivation, recordkeeping, and program audits and evaluations.

NIOSH-Criteria-Document; Occupational-noise; Noise-levels; Noise-exposure; Maximum-permissible-exposure; Standards; Occupational-exposure; Noise-intensity; Work-environments; Peak-values; Noise-induced-hearing-loss; Audiometry; Prevention; Protection-equipment; Record-keeping; Information-dissemination; Occupational-safety-and-health; Construction-Search

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Numbered Publication; Criteria Document

1998

PB98-173735

A08

DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 98-126

EID; DBBS

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

OH