getting your personal protective equipment (ppe) facts right - 5 facts and 5 myths “i am all...
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GETTING YOUR PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) FACTS
RIGHT - 5 FACTS AND 5 MYTHS
“I AM ALL EARS”
Andrew D. Perkins MS, CIH, CSP, COHC (@adpthatsme)
Submission toward the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS)(@BOHSworld) and 3M (@3M_UK_Safety), International Scientific Conference of the International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA) (#IOHA2015), Young Occupational Hygienist Completion(#3mcompetition)
Let your feedback be heard!
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The Myth: I don’t need to
protect my hearing now!
I will get a hearing aid,
take medication or have
surgery to correct my
noise induced hearing
loss later!
The Facts: Hearing aids can’t restore lost hearing
sensitivity where cochlear hair cells have been
destroyed! No medication exists that restores
hearing in humans with noise induced hearing loss!
Surgery to reverse noise induced hearing loss is not
available!
Protect Your Hearing Today To Hear Tomorrow!
The Myth: I don’t need to protect my hearing now! I
will get a hearing aid, take medication or have
surgery to correct my noise induced hearing loss
later!
Image from Clark Audiology
The Facts: Hearing protectors are very diverse.
These devices have been designed to fulfill a wide
range of needs. If you understand your hearing
protection needs. A solution to fulfill your protection
needs most likely exists.
Select the correct hearing protection for your
needs!
The Myth: All hearing protectors are the same!
Image from Construction Safety
Equipment
Image from Gaebler Image from 3M
The Myth: Noise reduction rating (NRR),
Single Number Rating (SNR), Sound Level
Conversion (SLC80) or Canadian Standards
Association(CSA) listed on hearing
protection is the level of protection all
persons will achieve with a particular
hearing protector!
Image from hearos Image from Howard Leight
The Facts: These values can’t accurately predict
the exact level of attenuation every wearer of a
particular model of hearing protection will achieve.
Physiology, donning process, other PPE in use,
work tasks and other factors will all have an effect
on the real level of attenuation achieved. Don’t Only Rely On The Labeled Protection Level!
The Myth: Noise reduction rating (NRR), Single
Number Rating (SNR), Sound Level Conversion
(SLC80) or Canadian Standards Association(CSA)
listed on hearing protection is the level of protection
all persons will achieve with a particular hearing
protector!
Image from
Cision
The Myth: No quantitative methods
exist to assess real world attenuation of
a ear plug for a given person!
Images from Microsoft Clip
Art
The Facts: Field Attenuation Estimation Systems
(FAES) using Field-Microphone In Real Ear (F-MIRE) or
Real Ear Attenuation at Threshold (REAT) can
accurately quantitatively assess real world attenuation
of a ear plug for a given person. This value is called
Personal Attenuation Rating (PAR). Methods Now Exist To Better Assess Ear Plug Effectiveness!
The Myth: No quantitative methods exist to assess real
world attenuation of a ear plug for a given person!
Image from 3MImage from Workplace Integra Image from Howard Leight
The Myth: Occupational/Industrial Hygienists
should not focus their resources toward the
hazards of noise. It is not as important, when
compared to chemical and other physical
hazards!
Image from The Samuel
Roberts Nobile Foundation Image from Microsoft Clip
Art
Image from keepcalm-o-
matic
The Facts: Noise is the most ubiquitous hazard for
many persons on and off the job. To often effects of
noise hazards are misunderstood and marginalized. No
cure for noise induced hearing loss exists today. Once
hearing is gone it is gone forever. Noise induced
hearing loss has been shown to have wide-ranging
negative health effects. Noise induced hearing loss is
100% preventable!Noise Induced Hearing Loss Decreases Quality Of Life!
The Myth: Occupational/Industrial Hygienists should
not focus their resources toward the hazards of noise. It
is not as important, when compared to chemical and
other physical hazards!
Images from Microsoft Clip Art
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN
OCCUPATIONAL/INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE &
PREVENTING NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS
Quote from the inspirational Alabamian
Helen Keller: "Blindness separates us from
things but deafness separates us from
people.“
Image of Helen Keller from
Wikipedia
The world can be loud. We take our ears
everywhere. Protect them on and off the job
everyday.Let your feedback be heard!
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