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This page of our website was established to present recent articles and other materials relating to hearing loss prevention. These materials were either developed by NHCA members specifically for posting on this website, or were found on other websites. If you know of documents or materials which should be posted on this website, please contact us via email.

• Occupational Hazards article on OSHA's new website on noise and hearing conservation, developed in conjunction with NHCA
• Occupational Hazards article describing electronic hearing conservation resources
• Occupational Hazards article on OSHA's efforts to develop a construction hearing conservation standard
• Environmental Health Perspectives article on mitigating noise
• Environmental Health Perspectives article on regulating unwanted sound
• Environmental Health Perspectives article on the effects of living in a noisy world
• University of Florida audiologists study motorcycle noise exposure levels
• Hear, Hear, Battered Olde Ears
• Noise and hearing loss materials presented at Iowa State Fair
• Two recent articles relating to hearing conservation recently appeared in Business Insurance (a subscription publication). These articles are "Employers tuning in to the dangers of noise" and "Noise safety advice unheeded."
• View the winning essays from the NHCA student essay contests in 2004 and 2005.
• OSHA Safety and Health Information Bulletin on Innovative Workplace Safety Accommodations for Hearing-Impaired Workers.
• The E-A-R Hearing Conservation website has many good publications on hearing loss prevention.
• The Bacou-Dalloz website has a new series of publications on hearing conservation.
• Institute of Medicine report assessing noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus associated with military service.
• Article on occupational audiology for the clinical audiologist in the ASHA Leader.
• Article on determining OSHA hearing loss recordability in the ASHA Leader.
• Washington Post article on risk of noise-induced hearing loss from music
• Seattle Times article on the toll of hearing loss among troops returning from Iraq.  Read the research study on which
  this article was based, which was published in the American Journal of Audiology.
• "Drug Discovery Today" article on "Compounds for the prevention and treatment of noise-induced hearing loss." 
• ASHA survey on hearing loss symptoms among American high school students.
• Mercury News article on rising rates of hearing loss among US troops.
• Downtown Express article on noise in subway systems
• Compendia of Aircraft Noises (Note: PDF file size is approximately 50MB)