Hearing Conservation Training

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Hearing conservation training.

Courses are approved and instructors are certified by the council for accreditation in occupational hearing conservation caohc. It is designed to train personnel conducting hearing testing. Osha standards worker s compensation and other state and federal regulations are discussed. Hearing conservation safety training handout protect your hearing you can never regain any hearing loss.

Hearing loss is 100 preventable. An effective hearing conservation program is designed to prevent hearing loss. Hearing loss is a normal part of getting older. Has training been conducted at least once a year.

Implementing or supervising hearing conservation programs. Hearing conservation programs strive to prevent initial occupational hearing loss preserve and protect remaining hearing and equip workers with the knowledge and hearing protection devices necessary to safeguard themselves. Hearing loss not only prevents you from understanding others it also causes physical mental strain. Overview participants in this course become familiar with all aspects of occupational hearing conservation programs including noise measurement and control anatomy and physiology of the auditory system hearing protection and employee education.

Training and education failures or deficiencies in hearing conservation programs hearing loss prevention programs can often be traced to inadequacies in the training and education of noise exposed employees and those who conduct elements of the program. But once you lose your hearing you will never get it back. This 20 hour initial certification training is referenced in both osha and msha noise standards. The employer must ensure that each employee participates.

This program is intended as an overview of the basic elements of hearing conservation to include the methods of selection use and care of hearing protection. Can you picture what your life would be like if you could not listen to music or sounds from the television. The hearing conservation program requires employers to monitor noise exposure levels in a way that accurately identifies employees exposed to noise at or above 85 decibels db averaged over 8 working hours or an 8 hour time weighted average twa. Today more than 20 million americans are exposed to hazardous noise on and off the job.