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An effective hearing conservation program.

D E Spindler·R D Olson·W A Fishbeck
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In a major chemical producing complex, noise problems of all kinds are encountered. One complex of The Dow Chemical Company, the Michigan Division, has approached this problem by setting up a Hearing Conservation Committee consisting of various disciplines: Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Medical, Engineering, and Production. This committee reviews each plant's Hearing Conservation Program bi-annually until all equivalent exposure ratios are less than one. Audiometric data is entered on a computer for rapid evaluation of periodic audiograms.

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EngineeringHearing Loss, Noise-InducedHumansMedical RecordsNoise, OccupationalOccupational DiseasesJournal Article

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D E Spindler, R D Olson, W A Fishbeck. 1979. An effective hearing conservation program.. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298667991430046

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