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Awareness training and hearing protection devices: Current practices in the South African mining industry

Author: Edwards, A Date: Sep 2012 This presentation outlines the importance of awareness training of managers at all levels and miners regarding the importance of hearing protection devices and adequate knowledge, motivation and training to prevent hearing loss. Read more
The effects of exposure to multiple occupational health stressors on distortion product otoacoustic emissions

Author: Edwards, A Date: Apr 2012 Mineworkers are exposed to combinations of stressors, since they spend most of the working shift performing physical work under noisy, hot, humid and dusty conditions, in some cases with exposure to chemicals. Such combined exposure confounds ... Read more
Evaluation of the current practices of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) awareness training in the South African mining industry

Author: Edwards, AL ; Milanzi, LA ; Khoza, NN ; Letsoalo, MS ; Zungu, LI Date: Jan 2015 This study aimed to evaluate the current practices in relation to best practice criteria and make recommendations for improvements to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) awareness training in the South African mining industry. A survey tool ... Read more
Evaluation of the current practices of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) awareness training in the South African mining industry

Author: Edwards, AL ; Milanzi, LA ; Khoza, NN ; Letsoalo, MS ; Zungu, LI Date: Jan 2015 This study aimed to evaluate the current practices in relation to best practice criteria and make recommendations for improvements to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) awareness training in the South African mining industry. A survey tool ... Read more
Evaluation of the current practices of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) awareness training in the South African mining industry

Author: Edwards, AL ; Milanzi, LA ; Khoza, NN ; Letsoalo, MS ; Zungu, LI Date: Jan 2015 This study aimed to evaluate the current practices in relation to best practice criteria and make recommendations for improvements to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) awareness training in the South African mining industry. A survey tool ... Read more
Future needs for improvement of noise-induced hearing loss awareness training and hearing protection device practices in the South African mining industry

Author: Edwards, AL ; Khoza, N ; Letsoalo, S ; Milanzi, L ; Zungu, L Date: Aug 2012 An investigation of the current practices and policies at various mines of the training practices and the employees’ knowledge of the risks as well as the miner’s use of HPDs was initiated by the Safety in Mining Research Advisory Committee ... Read more
Measuring and controlling the mining environment for worker health and safety

Author: Pretorius, C Date: Oct 2012 This presentation discusses the work on lung disease silicosis and other work conducted by the human factors group as well as the services offered by the laboratory. Read more
Meeting the milestones: are South African small-to-medium-scale mines up to the task?

Author: Dekker, JJ ; Edwards, AL ; Franz, RM ; Van Dyk, T ; Banyini, A Date: May 2011 Controlling noise has proven difficult in mining, and noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) remains common. In 2008, a South African Mine Health and Safety Council study focused on small- to medium-sized mines in relation to the milestones set ... Read more
The noise-induced hearing loss milestones: past and future

Author: Edwards, AL ; Kritzinger, D Date: Oct 2012 At the 2003 Mine Health and Safety Summit, the milestones for elimination of Noise-induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) in the mining industry were agreed on. The first milestone, December 2008, has passed and the next one in 2013 is looming. The study ... Read more
Ototoxicity in the South African mining industry: a position paper

Author: Edwards, AL Date: Feb 2013 Despite the attention that Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) prevention has received in the mining industry since 2003 when the milestone to eliminate NIHL was set, the statistics show that NIHL persists as one of the most common occupational ... Read more
Ototoxicity in the South African mining industry: a position paper

Author: Edwards, AL Date: Feb 2013 This position paper asserts that exposure to chemicals in certain occupations and work activities in the mining industry can lead to ototoxicity which accentuates the problem of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). Increased awareness of all ... Read more
Profiles of noise exposure levels in South African mining

Author: Edwards, A ; Dekker, JJ ; Franz, RM ; Van Dyk, T ; Banyini, A Date: May 2011 This two-year study focused on current noise exposure levels in the South African mining industry, aimed at helping the Mine Health and Safety Council of South Africa meet its milestones for eliminating noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). A ... Read more

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