OSHA Safety Pro: Hearing Protection Program

Name: OSHA Safety Pro: Hearing Protection Program
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Your guide to preventing hearing loss using OSHA's Occupational Noise Exposure Standards.

Created byJames Neil

Last updated 7/2016

English

What you'll learn

Protect the important things in life, such as your ability to hear and respond to the world around through a hearing conservation program. Occupational noise exposure effects not just our hearing, but our self confidence as well. Take this course and learn how to protect it.

Course content

6 sections • 9 lectures • 32m total length

Instructor introduction and what the course will cover.2:59
Acquire perspective as to why protecting our hearing, and other senses, is vital to our survival and the survival and well being of those around us. Gain an understanding of what this course can do and how safety will benefit your career.

Understand how the world around you communicates with you and how your job-site or place of business 'informs' you about hazards that may exist.
Be a hero by saving life and limb through hazard recognition and accident prevention.

The importance of protection and noise mitigation.4:52
Display a base of knowledge and professionalism regarding hearing protection, to superiors, and colleagues.
Who should be wearing hearing protection?5:02
Increase situational awareness by understanding who should be wearing hearing protection and at what levels sound will damage the inner ear.
Understand the importance of protecting hearing and be a protector of your colleagues' health by mitigating excessive noise exposure.
Discussion: Types of noise exposure that will permanently damage.2:37
Be aware of which environments can cause permanent hearing damage and rob you of one of your most valuable 'senses for safety'.

Is hearing protection required?2:15
Identify when a work environment is too noisy and damaging to one's hearing. Be a hero by preserving yours' and other's ability to assess dangers in the work place by preserving your abilities to do so, by protecting your ability to hear.
Identify dangerous noise environments.
Noise levels.
Outro and THANK YOU!3:51
Be a successful enabler by using this course not only for your benefit, but the benefit of others around you.

Requirements

This safety course is geared towards protecting ones hearing and controlling occupational noise exposure. We will discuss OSHA noise exposure standards 1910.95 and 1926.52.

Description

This course covers the hazards relating to occupational noise exposure. We will cover effective methods in developing an effective hearing protection program. This course teaches how to identify environments which could be harmful to one's hearing and employ countermeasures to protect against it.

This short, yet effective course is delivered in video format with with the occasional quiz. Screen shots and photos of job sites where occupational noise control plans are implemented are delivered to students in an interactive manner. Students interact with photos of job site occupational noise exposure environments to determine if whether or not engineering controls or protective equipment is required.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who has a concern for their hearing. This may include city workers, construction or general industry employees, or anyone who experiences ringing in the ears or is concerned about hearing loss.

OSHA Safety Pro: Hearing Protection Program

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Course content

What this course is about.1 lecture • 3min

What this course does for you? ... Its yours to keep and use.1 lecture • 5min

Permanent damage to your hearing.1 lecture • 3min

Good practices.1 lecture • 3min

Noise and Hearing Protection3 lectures • 13min

Job site inspection. Exposure to noise hazards.2 lectures • 6min

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