A Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC) class in Fremont, CA will be held at the Courtyard Fremont Silicon Valley on September 18-20, 2019.
We still have plenty of room available in this class, sign up here or call 888-974-0001
Article by Meghan Holohan, MSN Today
When Nora Keegan would visit a restroom and use a hand dryer, she often thought it sounded too loud. Sometimes she’d notice other children stuffing their fingers in their ears to quiet the roar of the dryer while exasperated parents looked worried that their child was too sensitive. That’s when Nora, then 9, decided to measure sound coming from the hand dryers for a science fair project.
Nearly four years later, the Canadian journal Pediatrics & Child Health published a paper she wrote about the findings showing that Nora’s instinct was right.
“Sometimes after using hand dryers my ears would start ringing,” the 13 year old, soon-to-be ninth grader from Calgary, Canada, told TODAY Parents. “I started wondering that maybe (hand dryers) are too loud for our ears.”
See full article here.
A Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC) class in New Orleans, LA will be held at the Hampton Inn & Suites-Elmwood on August 7-9, 2019.
We still have plenty of room available in this class, sign up here or call 888-974-0001.
| Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Act, before the damage is done Exposure to harmful noise can happen at any age. People of all ages, including children, teens, young adults, and older people, can develop NIHL. Based on a 2011-2012 CDC study involving hearing tests and interviews with participants, at least 10 million adults (6%) in the U.S. under age 70 – and perhaps as many as 40 million adults (24%) – have features of their hearing test that suggest hearing loss in one or both earsfrom exposure to loud noise. Are you too late? Tim Turney discusses the long-lasting impact this condition can have and how employees must put monitoring processes in place to help identify the issue in our latest news article… See full article here. |
An audiologist could hardly believe the size of a massive earwax chunk he had just pulled out of his patient’s ear during a Feb. 22 procedure that was captured on video. “Wow! Look at that!” Neel Raithatha, a consultant audiologist at The Hear Clinic in Leicestershire, said in the video.
Raithatha, whose patient was not identified in the clip, initially estimated that the chunk of earwax measured the entirety of the ear canal, and he wasn’t far off. The earwax measured at 1 inch (2.5 centimeters), falling just 0.19 inches (0.5 centimeters) short of taking up the whole ear canal.
See full article here.
The 89th Annual NC Statewide Safety Conference will be held May 14-16, 2019 at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, NC.
To register or for more information click here.
Workplace INTEGRA will be in exhibit booth 40, stop by to see INTEGRAfit, Workplace Applications Software. Here is a list of all exhibitors.
Make your plans to attend the AOHC National Conference at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, CA April 28-May 1, 2019.
The American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC) is the premier professional meeting for physicians and other health professionals who have an interest in the fields of occupational and environmental medicine (OEM). It is also the annual membership meeting for ACOEM’s members.
Please visit Tremetrics (a Workplace Integra sister company) in booth 413.
Make your plans now to attend the AAOHN National Conference at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, FL on April 8-10, 2019.
Don’t miss this opportunity to meet again with your AAOHN colleagues and enjoy the beautiful Jacksonville Riverfront.
Workplace INTEGRA, Inc. will again be an exhibitor at this conference so make sure to stop by exhibit booth 210.
Click here for AAOHN conference site.
The NDD EasyOne and EasyOne Plus spirometers have been discontinued. These spirometers have been replaced by the NDD EasyOne Air. The NDD EasyOn-PC spirometer is still available.
EasyOne Air is the new, all-in-one revolution in lung function testing. Built for healthcare providers large and small, EasyOne Air puts the power of the most advanced spirometry testing tools in the palm of your hand.
Revolutionary TrueFlow ultrasound technology means unprecedented accuracy for reliable diagnosis and rusted treatment. Equipped with ready-to-use EMR connectivity and a user-friendly interface, the EasyOne Air makes the best in lung care available anywhere.
NDD is offering promotions, please contact Workplace Integra for more information.
Please contact us for a quote or to answer any questions: info@wpintegra.com
FOLLOWING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOUND LEVEL METER APPS
The smartphone is one of the technological developments that has taken the world by storm over the last decade. Statistics released in June 2016 forecast the number of smartphone users to grow from 2.1 billion in 2016 to around 2.5 billion in 2019, with just over 36 percent of the world’s population projected to use a smartphone by 2018. In addition, app downloads reached nearly 200 billion in 2017 and are expected to reach over 350 billion by 2021.
It is no surprise, then, that the smartphone is cited by many industrial hygienists as their favorite piece of work equipment. Industrial hygienists can use smartphones to make notes and take photographs while on site, email measurement results to colleagues, access websites for guidance, and even make the occasional phone call.
WE’VE GOT AN APP FOR THAT?
It should also come as no surprise that there are hundreds of sound level meter apps available. As a manufacturer of professional sound level meters, Casella urges users to exercise some caution (we would say that, wouldn’t we?). But we don’t want to appear Luddite in our actions. (The Luddites were a radical group of English textile workers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery that they believed was threatening their jobs. This was a form of protest against the use of machinery in a “fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices.) Buying instrumentation that claims to meet a standard is already a case of “buyer beware.” Products often only get “found out” when tested by a capable, ISO 17025-approved verification laboratory.
Indeed, there are many benefits of using an app with common tools of the industrial hygiene trade. For example, apps used with noise dosimeters or personal air sampling pumps can warn of low battery or a failed measurement and can run remotely from a discrete distance without having to disturb the worker. This improves the productivity of both the industrial hygienist and worker alike; there is nothing worse than having to repeat a measurement or miss a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity.
See full article here.