National Conference on Preventing Hearing Loss
In the Construction Trades (March, 2000)
Conference Agenda and Presentations
Participants
The Problem
Construction workers are bombarded every day from noise from construction equipment, tools, traffic and construction activities. As a result, most construction workers suffer from significant hearing loss after 15-20 years at the trade.
Hearing loss has a dramatic impact on a worker’s quality of life and can produce safety problems for them. The OSHA hearing conservation amendment does not yet cover construction, so many contractors do not currently have comprehensive hearing conservation programs.
Hearing loss in construction is completely preventable through a combination of quieter equipment, comprehensive hearing conservation programs and good hearing protection training. This conference was designed to provide the tools to tackle this silent epidemic.
The Goal
The National Conference on Preventing Hearing Loss in the Construction Trades was the first step towards increasing awareness in the industry and creating partnerships towards attacking this serious problem.
Sponsors
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Laborers’ Health & Safety Fund of North America (LHSFNA)
Co-Sponsors
American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA)
New England Laborers’ Health & Safety Fund (NELHSF)
New York State Laborers’ Health & Safety Trust Fund (NYSLHSTF)
- Fall Protection
- PEST
- Ergonomics
- Noise
- Noise Resource Links
- Construction Noise Control Partnership
- National Conference on Hearing Loss in Construction
- Quieting Your Construction Site
- Chemicals and Hearing Loss
- Comments for ANPRM for Noise Standard in Construction
- Comments for ANPRM for Noise Standard in Construction (Executive Summary)
- Recordkeeping and MSDs
- Hearing Tests at Tri-Fund Conference Confirm Risk to Laborers
- Hearing Test Results from West Virginia
- LHSFNA Urges OSHA to Hear the Noise
- Safety Culture
- Silica
- Work Zone Safety
- Workers Compensation
- Other Safety & Health Issues
- Find It Fix It
- Noise
- NIOSH/NCHA Call for Safe-in-Sound Nominations
- Control Worksite Noise through Task Assessment
- Noise in the City
- Keeping the Worksite 'Safe in Sound'
- LHSFNA Supports NYC Noise Mitigation Rule
- Email to the Editor
- New Posters Augment Hearing Conservation Efforts
- Composer Uses Music to Elucidate Tinnitus
- Internet Message on Stroke Recognition Requires Comment
- Noise Exposure Associated with High Blood Pressure, Stroke, Heart Disease
- NIOSH Tool Helps Visualize Hearing Loss
- Getting a Sound Fit with Earmuffs
- The Longer You Work, the Less You Hear
- Hearing Conservation Squelched at OSHA
- Noise
- Noise Critics to OSHA; Can You Hear Us Now?
- ANSI to Adopt Hearing Conservation Standard
- Fund Aims to Enhance Life for Retiress
- Hearing Loss Programs Leave Room for Improvement
- Noise Exposure Raises Risk of Heart Attack
- Compromise Gains Ground for Voluntary Noise Standard
- Hearing Conservation Standard Considered by OSHA
- Hearing Conservation Standard Considered by OSHA