
Abstract Background Mining workers are frequently exposed to noise levels exceeding recommended limits, leading to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), a major occupational
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2024.10.9 Interventions Noise-induced hearing loss is being addressed in the surface and underground areas of the mining industry. Initially, noise
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2024.1.17 Abstract Background: Negative attitudes and beliefs are major contributing factors to the rising numbers of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) cases in coal mines both
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2025.4.24 as well as their attitude were essential factors for the usage of hearing protection devices. Coal miners ar known to work in areas near noise, increasing their risk of hearing
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2025.5.23 By their 40s or 50s, a significant portion of miners start to exhibit detectable hearing loss, according to studies conducted by NIOSH and other international organizations.
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2022.3.24 Noise-induced hearing loss is an incurable occupational disease [25]. This study evaluates the noise-induced hearing losses of miners working in an underground coal mine in
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2022.9.30 The critical exposure times in which the coal miners could work without the use of personal protective equipment were examined according to the noise values to which they
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2005.1.1 Abstract Introduction: This longitudinal field study was designed to encourage Appalachian coal miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania to engage in hearing-protection
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This longitudinal field study was designed to encourage Appalachian coal miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania to engage in hearing-protection behaviors. Method: Participants were
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2023.9.16 The objective of the survey was to determine worker attitudes towards, and perceptions on hearing loss and management of workplace noise (regardless of their hearing
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2024.1.17 Background: Negative attitudes and beliefs are major contributing factors to the rising numbers of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) cases in coal mines both locally and
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2023.8.23 structural modifications for longwall cutting drums Emphasize PPE: Hearing protection devices, including earmuffs, semi-insert earplugs,
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2008.10.15 Download Citation Hearing protection for miners A NIOSH analysis showed that at age 50 approximately 90% of coal miners have a hearing impairment, yet noise
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2025.6.5 In Australia, hearing protection for miners is a major concern, particularly because of the risks associated with prolonged exposure to high
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2024.1.17 Background Negative attitudes and beliefs are major contributing factors to the rising numbers of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) cases in coal mines both locally and
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2005.2.1 Responses from 307 coal miners revealed that the positive or neutral messages generated significantly more self-reported hearing protection behaviors than the negative
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2012.8.30 Introduction: This longitudinal field study was designed to encourage Appalachian coal miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania to engage in hearing-protection
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2024.9.6 2013 Managing noise in the coal industry to protect hearing Noise can be described as ‘unwanted sound’ or as ‘sound of such intensity or character sufficient to disturb
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A new noise regulation for the mining industry became effective in 2000, providing a consistent regulatory requirement for both coal and non-coal mining divisions. The new rule required
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2003.6.1 A Hearing Conservation Program for Coal Miners The industry needs such a program because engineering and administrative noise controls aren't viable, and use of
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2008.1.1 Also, intentions toward wearing hearing protection predicted hearing protection behaviors. Approximately six weeks later, miners' attitudes and perceived behavioral control
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MSHA has addressed the problem by publishing and enforcing new standards for occupational noise exposure that require mine operators to adopt an OSHA-like hearing conservation
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2022.10.18 An estimated 90% of miners develop hearing loss by the age of 50. Despite nearly 30 years of noise regulation within mining hearing loss
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Positive and neutral messages were convincingly more successful than negative messages in facilitating self-reported hearing protection behaviors among coal miners. Similarly, the
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2023.6.15 Hearing Loss Prevention Overview Topic PageWhat is the health and safety problem? One out of every four mine workers has a hearing problem. Even worse, four out of
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The fact that hearing loss can be such a problem for workers doesn’t mean that people should have to accept untreated hearing loss. However, it does mean that industry workers should
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Introduction: This longitudinal field study was designed to encourage Appalachian coal miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania to engage in hearing-protection behaviors. Method:
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2024.1.17 Abstract Background: Negative attitudes and beliefs are major contributing factors to the rising numbers of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) cases in coal mines both
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2024.9.6 2013 Managing noise in the coal industry to protect hearing Noise can be described as ‘unwanted sound’ or as ‘sound of such intensity or character sufficient to disturb
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2016.10.10 Instead, the motivation to protect hearing must focus on how using hearing protection today affects long-term health and well-being
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6 Sensear headsets also provide protection and clear communications between operators inside vehicles, throughout the worksite and even for
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2008.1.1 Also, intentions toward wearing hearing protection predicted hearing protection behaviors. Approximately six weeks later, minersapos; attitudes and perceived behavioral
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This longitudinal field study was designed to encourage Appalachian coal miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania to engage in hearing-protection behaviors. Method: Participants were
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2015.12.14 Although the noise exposure levels may differ between coal miners and metal and non-metal miners, in the absence of noise control at the source, the solution is the same:
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2024.4.17 The Labor Department has issued a new rule intended to protect coal miners from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the
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Negative attitudes and beliefs are major contributing factors to the rising numbers of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) cases in coal mines both locally and internationally. International
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2024.1.17 Hearing loss in miners exposed to high noise levels: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the last 10 years María Victoria Parra-Cortés, Juan Jesús García-Iglesias,
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Our results indicate that appeals to normative influences may be the most effective antecedent to employ when persuading coal miners to wear hearing protection. However, messages
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