ONIHL Awareness
If hearing protectors are worn properly, occupational noise-induced hearing loss is reduced.
On average, hearing protection devices are only worn for about 38 percent of the time that a worker is exposed to excessive noise. A study from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences clearly shows that raising awareness among employees and providing proper training can have a positive impact on their wear rate.
The first key step in your hearing preservation campaign is when the ear impressions (molds) are taken. This is done on-site, by a hearing protection specialist, at a time convenient for you.
During this appointment, your employees gain information about:
Enjoy the benefit of free signs and awareness-raising tools:
You want to reduce noise related risks in your business, but how do you begin? What protection devices should you choose? How do you involve your employees? How do you facilitate the implementation of custom hearing protection solutions?
Start with these three easy steps:
The employer must institute a training program for all employees who need to wear hearing protection.
The employer must ensure that training includes:
(Source: www.osha.gov)
When you train your employees on noise-related risks, you make them responsible and conscious of the fact that they expose themselves every day to an invisible danger. They become responsible for their own hearing health and adopt proper behaviors: wearing their hearing protection devices constantly during exposure, not taking them off while communicating, and so on. If hearing protection devices are properly worn, the risk of occupational deafness is reduced.
A prevention campaign is a set of actions taken to train and inform your employees about "noise risks".
Simple suggestions that will ensure a successful noise-risk prevention campaign:
Occupational deafness is a perceptive deafness that is caused by exposure to noise in the workplace. It is characterized by a reduction in hearing acuity: the transmission of sound is correct, but its perception (analysis) is defective. It corresponds to the destruction of ciliated cells.
If the deafness is identified as an occupational disease, the organization is responsible.
In terms of safety and prevention, the employer has an obligation to achieve a result. If an employee is diagnosed as deaf due to his professional activity, but the employer provides him with equipment for prevention and protection, the law will take into account all of these elements.