OH&S Launches 2023 Industrial Hygiene Awards

Entries for the third annual award program are due by March 3, 2023.

Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Using PPE to Protect Your Hearing

Protecting workers’ hearing is a team effort.

New Study Shows Many Struggle 'Often' to Get Employees to Use PPE

According to the study, the main reasons employees don’t wear PPE are that they don’t want to, they think it's unnecessary and it makes work harder.

Noise Surveys from the Trenches

Make tackling hazardous noise easier with the right tools and knowledge.

How to Keep Workers Safe From Loud Music

People who work at weddings, bars and restaurants are often exposed to loud noise. How do you protect these workers from noise hazards?

Nominations for NIOSH Award for Hearing Loss Prevention Recognition Still Open

The Safe-in-Sound Award recognizes organizations that help prevent hearing loss.

Quest Edge

With the Quest™ Edge 4+ Personal Noise Dosimeters by TSI, safety professionals can monitor worker noise exposure in real-time through Bluetooth® connection to the Edge dB App. The App can program the dosimeter, start and stop surveys, monitor noise exposure data in real-time, and email results. Monitoring noise levels from a safe distance allows workers to continue their tasks without interruption and maintains safe social distancing. The Edge 4+ also has up to 80 hours of run time on a battery charge, an easy to read OLED color screen, and a simple to operate interface.

Alphas™Reusable Earplugs

Passive Earmuffs: Making Comfort Personal

Noise Myths Debunked – Check Your Knowledge about Hearing Loss Prevention

This free webinar will sort fact from fiction and debunk common myths about occupational hearing loss prevention. Check your knowledge and take home some tips and tricks for improving your hearing conservation program.

Stay Up-To-Date With the Latest NFPA 70E Risk Assessment Changes

This free webinar highlights the key points in NFPA 70E that lead to enhanced arc flash risk assessments, proper FR/AR PPE selection and improved worker protection.

Providing the Best PPE Is No Guarantee: A Guide to Addressing Human Factors in your PPE Program

Even the best PPE only works when worn—so how do you get workers to actually wear PPE all the time? PPE compliance is greatly influenced by a person’s state of mind, and being in a rush, frustrated, tired or complacent with hazards affects decisions around PPE compliance in critical moments. This paper addresses how to deal with human factors in your safety program to reduce injuries and improve PPE use among employees.

Inside the EPA Proposed Change to the Noise Reduction Rating

In anticipation of the EPA's expected change to the Noise Reduction Rating (NRR), Howard Leight has issued a brochure that explains known details of the proposed changes for hearing protectors. Titled, "Inside the EPA's Proposed Change to the Noise Reduction Rating," the brochure is designed as a handy information resource for safety managers, providing background on the impending new rating system and the ANSI testing protocols on which it is expected to be based.

Combating Common Objections to Hearing Protection Wear

Keeping workers properly protected from hazardous noise and motivated to wear their hearing protectors is a challenge for any safety manager. With proper training and ongoing encouragement, most workers do wear their earplugs or earmuffs on the job. However, there are always a few workers who feel compelled to raise objections instead of just donning their hearing protectors and getting on with the job.

Multilingual Hearing Instructions

One of the challenges of occupational health testing today is language barriers — two out of every 25 people in the U.S. are not proficient in English. Benson Medical responds to this challenge by providing audio instructions and printable reports in 21 different languages for both hearing and pulmonary function testing.

Peltor Earmuffs X Series: Listen to the Future

3M™ Peltor™ X Series Earmuffs protect workers in a variety of harsh enviroments with the most advanced technology on the market. Listen to the future. Protect your hearing today.

Buy Quiet Construction Video

This 2014 NIOSH video provides an overview of Buy Quiet initiatives and resources to construction company owners, employees, subcontractors, purchasers and suppliers of power tools and equipment, and to the general community. Buy Quiet addresses the vision of eliminating noise hazards early in the life cycle of power tools and equipment, thus reducing the risk of occupational hearing loss among operators and nearby workers. Companies are encouraged to implement Buy Quiet within their organization as any company whose workers are subjected to hazardous noise exposures can benefit from Buy Quiet initiatives. Visit http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/buyquiet for more information.