The United States Department of Labor has updated pulmonary function standards for cotton dust standard.
There are other updates including the medical surveillance, 1910.1043 h section. See here for the updated cotton dust and here for the pulmonary function standards.
A Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC) class in San Diego, CA will be held at the Residence Inn San Diego Sorrento Mesa/Sorrento Valley on October 16-18, 2019.
We still have plenty of room available in this class, sign up here or call 888-974-0001
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.