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Assessment Of Hearing Exposures And Personal Protective Equipment Use In Agricultural Workers, Kelsie M. Musil
Assessment Of Hearing Exposures And Personal Protective Equipment Use In Agricultural Workers, Kelsie M. Musil
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Agriculture continues to rank as one of the most hazardous industries in the United States. This is in part due to the high number of hazardous exposures that farmers face, including respiratory and hearing exposures. The danger to workers can be reduced by properly wearing personal protective equipment (PPE). However, it has been shown that agricultural workers wear PPE at a low rate, in part due to inconvenience and poor accessibility of the equipment. There is little knowledge currently about how PPE are stored, maintained, and if they are used in a correct manner in specific exposure conditions by the …