Glorig A
Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 1979 Aug;12(3):609-21.
Hearing conservation programs, when appropriate in industry, are now a necessity. Even though one may not wish to adopt an altruistic attitude toward the conservation of hearing, one must, like it or not, initiate a hearing conservation program because of both federal and state regulations. Since industrial noise exposure produced more hearing loss in more people than all other causes of hearing loss combined, it is incumbent on all industries with noise makers to do something about protecting human hearing. The tragedy is that nearly all industrial hearing loss can be prevented with proper hearing conservation measures. The cost of hearing conservation is far less than the cost of hearing loss in terms of human suffering and dollars in the compensation courts. Proper education of both managment and labor can result in successful hearing conservation programs. The method of choice is reduction of the noise at the source, but in many cases this is infeasible both technically and economically and therefore protection at the ear must be used. Experience has shown that with proper supervision ear protection programs can prevent the majority of instances of hearing loss in the majority of individuals exposed.
在工业领域，适当的听力保护计划现在已成为必要。即使有人可能不想对听力保护采取利他主义态度，但无论喜欢与否，由于联邦和州的法规，都必须启动听力保护计划。由于工业噪声暴露导致听力损失的人数比所有其他听力损失原因加起来还要多，因此所有拥有噪声源的行业都有责任采取措施保护人类听力。可悲的是，几乎所有的工业性听力损失都可以通过适当的听力保护措施来预防。就人类痛苦和赔偿法庭上的金钱而言，听力保护的成本远低于听力损失的成本。对管理层和劳动者进行适当的教育可以带来成功的听力保护计划。首选方法是从源头上降低噪音，但在许多情况下，这在技术和经济上都是不可行的，因此必须使用耳部保护措施。经验表明，在适当的监督下，耳部保护计划可以在大多数暴露个体中预防大多数听力损失情况。
