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NIOSH, OSHA, And NHCA Establish Alliance On Workplace Hearing Loss Prevention

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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) signed an agreement February 21 with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) for outreach and resources to help prevent work-related hearing loss.

The three partners pledged to work together to:

* Provide expertise in developing information for recognizing and preventing occupational hearing loss, and in developing ways to communicate such information to employers and employees.
* Speak, exhibit, or appear at partner-sponsored conferences, local meetings, and national conferences such as the annual NCHA conference.
* Share information among OSHA and NIOSH personnel and industry safety and health professionals regarding NHCA-recommended best practices or effective approaches. Also to publicize results through materials prepared by the partners, training programs, workshops, seminars, lectures, or other appropriate forums.
* Work with others on specific issues and projects that are addressed and developed through the alliance.
* Convene or participate in forums, round-table discussions, or stakeholder meetings on workplace hearing-loss prevention, to help forge innovative solutions or to provide input on worker safety and health issues.

"We are pleased to join with OSHA and NHCA in this collaborative effort to prevent hearing loss from exposures to noise and other agents on the job," said NIOSH Director John Howard, M.D. "Work-related hearing loss is a serious but preventable problem, and we look forward to successes that we can achieve by working together under this formal agreement."

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