You’ve probably heard lots of “rules of thumb” about workplace safety. But are they really true? This article will look at three of them.
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Tags: indirect costs, noise, rules of thumb, truisms, unsafe human acts
What types of workplace noise do you think of in connection with occupational hearing loss? Jack hammers, lawn tractors, manufacturing assembly lines? In this case, a worker claims hearing loss from being yelled at on the phone by angry customers.
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Lawyers believe a judge’s award of damages to five former refinery workers for hearing damage is the first of its kind in Louisiana.
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Tags: hearing loss, Murphy Oil, refinery workers
Do some of your workers scoff at the idea that work-related noise can permanently damage their hearing? Here’s a first-person account of how that can happen from the drummer for heavy-metal band Metallica.
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Tags: hearing protection, Metallica, ringing in ears, tinnitus
The National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) is calling on OSHA to lower the permissible exposure limits for noise in workplaces.
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Tags: National Hearing Conservation Association, noise PEL, permissible exposure limit
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