EFFECTIVE HEARING CONSERVATION DEMANDS NEW TECHNOLOGY AND RE-ENGINEERING

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  • R.J. Steenkamp Department of Business Management, Unisa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7166/19-1-116

Abstract

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: OThe World Health Organization (WHO) lists noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) among the most critical global health concerns, given the high NIHL compensation statistics and a figure of up to 10,000 noise-related deaths each year. Industrial engineers / operations managers are now confronted with a serious challenge to control firstlevel noise in a modern engineering context to ensure that machines are quiet and administrative controls are well maintained. While noise continues, however, second-level noise control (hearing conservation) needs to be effective. To this end, a new management approach, re-engineering, redesign, and new hearing conservation programme (HCP) technology are required. The focus of this report is on an HCP model based on new HCP technologies (and management approaches) and a quality management method referred to as

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Published

2011-11-05

How to Cite

Steenkamp, R. (2011). EFFECTIVE HEARING CONSERVATION DEMANDS NEW TECHNOLOGY AND RE-ENGINEERING. The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.7166/19-1-116

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General Articles