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Appendix G: Regulations and Voluntary Use of Hearing Protection Devices
Pages 167-170

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From page 167...
... levels of Table G-16, personal protective equipment shall be provided and used to reduce sound levels within the levels OSHA gENERAL INDuSTRy -- HEARINg of the table." Thus, this first OSHA regulation, via the words CONSERVATION AMENDMENT CIRCA 1983 "shall be utilized," required that feasible administrative or engineering controls take priority over hearing protection. The Hearing Conservation Amendment significantly However, a significant weakness was that the word "feasible" improved the original OSHA noise standard by specifying was not defined specifically in terms of technical, economi- that a multifaceted hearing conservation program is required cal, or other criteria.
From page 168...
... OSHA "action" level imposed as a result of this writing. This section of the law applies to "any device the 1983 OSHA Hearing Conservation Amendment defined or material, capable of being worn on the head or in the ear an exposure window wherein thousands of workers who had canal, that is sold wholly or in part on the basis of its ability not been protected by law were now to be supplied with a to reduce unwanted sound that enters the user's ears" (40 selection of suitable HPDs.
From page 169...
... 1974. Method for the Mea new standard has much improved experimental controls and surement of Real-Ear Protection of Hearing Protectors and Physical human factors protocol over the current standard.


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