INTEGRATING NOISE MEASUREMENT AND NOISE CONTROL ENGINEERING INTO HEARING CONSERVATION TRAINING PROGRAMS

摘要

Serving as a guest lecturer in a CAOHC-approved course can provide an exciting opportunity for a noisecontrol engineer to easily and conveniently contribute to a shared goal of reducing noise-induced hearing loss in theindustrial workforce. Many noise control engineers are engaged in the design of low-noise products and noisecontrol devices, equipment noise control, or the teaching of noise control engineering. However, they may lackfamiliarity with how their efforts relate to the goal of reducing industrial noise exposure and hearing loss. It isimportant for noise control engineers who are engaged in industrial noise control to understand and fully appreciatehow important the profession of noise control engineering is to broader occupational hearing conservation goals.With this appreciation (and use of the tools described in this paper), such engineers have the capability to expandtheir roles into successful hearing conservation activities.