Occupational hearing-conservation guidelines fail to protect audio engineers’ ears

Evidence

Applying occupational hearing conservation guidelines (OSHA and the like) does not prevent hearing loss. Their goal is to preserve enough hearing at the end of a career to be able to carry on a (flawed) conversation at a distance of 1 m. These are guidelines created for factory workers, not audio engineers. — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 1249

Categorization

• SEED: Article angles: ‘The safety standard that only preserves the ability to converse’ — how industry safety guidelines set floors so low they don’t protect expert practitioners.
• XREF: connects to: Occupational hearing guidelines permit hearing loss rather than prevent it; Occupational noise limits fail to protect recreational hearing enjoyment — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1918; Hearing-impaired professionals give confident but unreliable sound quality judgments. (+2 more)

Related

• Occupational hearing guidelines permit hearing loss rather than prevent it (similarity 0.94)
• Occupational hearing guidelines allow damage, not prevention of loss. (similarity 0.86)
• Occupational noise standards accept measurable hearing loss and do not protect critical listening (similarity 0.86)
• Occupational noise limits fail to protect recreational hearing enjoyment (similarity 0.84)
• Audio mixers’ occupational hearing loss can impair their sound-quality judgments (similarity 0.80)
• Hearing-loss risk threshold should drop from 85 to 75 dB for full protection (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Hearing-impaired professionals give confident but unreliable sound quality judgments. #corroborates (0.80)
• Modern headphones can prevent rather than cause hearing loss #contradicts (0.75)
• Glimpses can fall below audibility threshold for hearing-impaired listeners #complicates (0.72)