workplace exposure Articles
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Industrial hygiene assessment of a large chemical manufacturing facility – Case Study
Challenge: Antea®Group was contracted by a large international chemical manufacturing organization to provide a plant-wide industrial hygiene assessment of chemical and noise exposures within their facility. The overall objective of the project was to evaluate worker exposures, compare results as to compliance with applicable regulations and guidelines, and to provide recommendations for ...
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NOISE AND HEARING LOSS - Noise, Regardless of Source, Can Lead To Hearing Loss
Untitled Document What is noise? Noise was once described as “unwanted sound”. To the average person, “noise” is not only unwanted, but annoying or loud. Sound, or noise, is produced by the rapid compression and decompression of air. When you clap your hands, you are producing a sound (applause) by compressing and decompressing the air between the palms of your hands. The ...
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Occupational Hearing Loss: How Noise Monitoring Can Help
Since the 1960’s, we have come to recognise the danger to hearing caused by loud noise. Every day, many individuals around the world are exposed to the risks of occupational hearing loss through harmful levels of noise at work and, for these groups, regular noise monitoring is vital. It is easy to take your hearing for granted, but the complex process that occurs when your ears pick up a ...
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2004 Global Forecast of Environmental Health and Safety Policy and Regulatory Developments Impacting Industry
Untitled Document New International Chemicals Management Scheme, Global Warming and Prevention of Workplace Accidents Top List of Global EHS Priorities for 2003-2004 The analysis of nearly one thousand environmental, health and safety regulatory initiatives taken in 2002 in more than 40 countries indicates that industry should prepare for more stringent requirements with ...
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Pulsar Instruments Top 10 blogs of 2016
In keeping with our annual-ish tradition, we are publishing our 2016 ranking of the 10 most popular Pulsar Instruments’ blogs. Here is how we have made our selection: we looked at followers and engagement on our Twitter, Facebook and YouTube accounts as well as our website traffic. After crunching the numbers, here are below the top ten results. Do have another read if you have missed ...
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Small yet robust - Case study
Cirrus Research’s doseBadge provides the perfect solution for dB Consultation. From manufacturing and engineering, to the entertainment industry and schools, noisy environments need to be monitored both for the welfare of employees and the wider community. Following the introduction of The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005, businesses need to be aware of their employees hearing ...
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Noise monitoring - are you prioritising it at work?
Hearing loss is a frequent complaint which can affect individuals’ quality of life significantly. We all know someone who suffers from it and maybe take it as something that can be expected depending on the age or the type of work carried out over a long career. Noise-induced hearing loss is often ignored and remains a forgotten industrial disease despite continued efforts to raise the ...
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Confused about Carbon Monoxide and Ventilation?
How does it affect you, the Building Owner and HVAC Contractor? There has been a lot of press regarding Carbon Monoxide Detectors (CO) and Smoke Detectors in the news over the past year. In most cases, this is justified and certainly the attention and awareness is important. As a contractor though, how does this affect you and the HVAC market place? It’s important to understand the ...
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Confused about Carbon Monoxide and Ventilation?
There has been a lot of press regarding Carbon Monoxide Detectors (CO) and Smoke Detectors in the news over the past year. In most cases, this is justified and certainly the attention and awareness is important. As a contractor though, how does this affect you and the HVAC market place? It’s important to understand the difference between private residential monitoring for personal safety ...
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Noise and Hearing Loss
Noise can be described as loud, unwanted sound. Sound is produced by the rapid compression and decompression of air. When you clap your hands, you are producing a sound by compressing and decompressing the air between the palms of your hands. Clapping faster produces a higher frequency or pitch of the sound. When sound waves enter the ear canal, they hit against the eardrum, a flexible piece of ...
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Are my STS’s recordable?
Although we often take it for granted, hearing is one of our most important senses. During infancy and childhood, hearing is vital for the normal development of speech and language. Hearing remains equally important throughout life as it enables us to communicate with friends and colleagues, and allows us to stay connected to and be aware of our environment. The ear is a remarkable structure, ...
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Are you protecting your business from hearing loss claims?
Doing enough to protect your business from hearing loss claims? In our line of business, we get to work closely with employers and safety professionals both in the UK and overseas. We often take calls from managers who come to us as they have been served with one and often multiple civil claims for noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). By the time they contact us, it may be too late to repair any ...
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Noise induced hearing loss: how can you start monitoring your workforce?
An estimated 20,000 people working during the last year suffered from noise induced hearing loss (NIHL), new as well as longstanding cases, caused or made worse by work.[1]The cause of NIHL is preventable but the affects are permanent, resulting in life changing injuries that can seriously impair a workers’ quality of life. Industries with the highest incidences of NIHL include ...
By Casella
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Protecting the unborn from noise - Pregnancy & noise
Employers should recognise that the use of hearing defenders for pregnant women working in high noise environments does not protect their unborn child from hearing damage.Is noise a problem during pregnancy? An increasing number of women of child bearing age are now occupationally active and as a result an increasing number of pregnancies are potentially exposed to occupational health and safety ...
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