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Determining HCP Effectiveness:
-Assumption: on-going ___ is needed
-___ & ___-effective changes WILL need to be made. |
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| Evaluate the entire program at least ___ |
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Management’s Roles:
-Ensure that the HCP is evaluated ___
-Recruit & keep HCP ___
-Provide adequate ___ (personnel & funds)
-Attend to ___ from employees
-Accept & fix ___
-Determine & carry out ___ measures for non compliance |
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| annually; personnel; resources; comments; deficiencies; disciplinary |
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HC P Team’s Responsibilities:
-Commit adequate ___
-Be dedicated to continuous ___
-Effectively communicate ___ to employees & management
-Find problems ___; use ___ practices; look for ___ STS instead of waiting for OSHA STS
-Ask ___, collaborate, find ___
-___ information from audiometric data |
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| time; improvement; findings; sooner; best; NIOSH; questions; solutions; Analyze |
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Workers’ Responsibilities:
-Give ___ to management & HCP team
-Discuss problems, concerns, difficulties re: changes for _____ and/or ___
-Attend to noise ___; promptly report any ___
-Help ___ problems and ___ any noise controls |
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| feedback; noise control and/or HPDs; levels; changes; correct; maintain |
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| Ways to Evaluate HCP Effectiveness: 1. Evaluate workers’ ___ ___ 2. Check for ___ to regulation (e.g. OSHA) 3. Check for any ___ in the implementation of the program’s components 4. ___ improvements 5. Evaluate ___ of each component of the HCP |
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| audiometric thresholds; compliance; deficiencies; Quantify; effectiveness |
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Check for Compliance to Regulation:
-Read the ___
-Make or find a relevant ___ ___
-Consider ___ practices
-OSHA check list on ___ website
-Note: compliance based on check lists does NOT necessarily mean the HCP ___ ___ |
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| regulation; check list; best; NIOSH; is effective |
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Program Deficiencies:
-Ask management & workers via ___ and/or ___ ___
-Can use checklist (for regulation) to see if ___ exist between groups |
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| interviews; focus groups; discrepancies |
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| What are some examples of deficiencies? |
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-HPDs: 5/10 companies said they evaluated HPD effectiveness, but they did NOT derate NRRs
-Annual training was never or intermittently done at 3/10 companies; others showed DVD in English only (even to those without English language fluency) |
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Advantages and Limitations of Interviews:
-Can identify problems areas ___
-Potential for reporting bias: Workers may not want negative ___ due to reports, Afraid they will ___ jobs, factory to ___ due to lack of compliance, some are afraid of ___ with management |
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| quickly; consequences; lose; close; disagreement |
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These are a qualitative research tool used to gauge opinions,
attitudes, determine effectiveness of procedures, make recommendations |
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Advantages and Limitations of Focus Groups:
-Good for those with ___ levels of literacy
-Can provide ___ information
-Comments are ___
-Listeners can ___ on others’ responses
-Need a good facilitator to handle different ____
-Time consuming to ___ ___ |
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| lower; detailed; spontaneous; build; personalities; analyze data |
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Information That Can Be Used To Gauge Program Effectiveness:
-____ w/ audiometric testing
-______ compliance
-___ ___ statistics
-Audiometric data ___ |
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| Compliance; HPD; Noise exposure; evaluation |
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Compliance with audiometric testing:
-# of persons enrolled in HCP with current ___ (w/in last yr)/# enrolled in ______ x 100
-Example: 100 have current audio in place where 200 total are enrolled in HCP = 50%. Figure out why only 50% have complied |
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Compliance with HPD Use:
-# of persons ___ using HPDs (through random checks)/ # ___ to use HPDs x 100
-Example: 12 are seen using HPDs in an area where 20 are required to use HPDs
-Next steps? |
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| observed; required; Find out reasons for low compliance rate and introduce strategies to increase compliance rate |
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Noise Exposure Statistics Percentage of workers in potentially hazardous noise:
-Based on ___ (8hr TWA above 84 dBA w/3dB exchange rate)
-Based on ___ noise (peak SPLs of 140 dB or higher)
-During ___ tasks
-Number of ___ or ___ where engineering noise controls were implemented
-Noise controls in ___ (difference in pre- & post-controls)
-Percentage of workers ___ from HCP due to reduced noise dose |
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| dosimetry; impact; certain; areas; machines; dB; removed |
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Audiometric Data:
-Look for ___ changes in each worker; use ___ method & restricted database (n =30)
-Overall program evaluation: 1. look at ___ of audiometric data. 2. compare the rate of STS of ___-___ workers to those ___ ___ to noise |
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| significant; systematic; integrity; noise-exposed; not exposed |
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| What are some factors that could reduce integrity of audiometric data? |
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| Poor test environment, Poor procedures (headphone placement, instructions, etc.), Poor calibration, and Inaccurate/poor data recording |
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| What is Considered an “Effective HCP”? |
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| STS rate of 3 to 6% or STS rate of 3% or less (NIOSH) |
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Limitations of Using STS Rates:
-STS rates can appear low if ___ is high
-A high percentage of prior ___ revisions can make the current STS rate appear low
-Changes in ___ or ___ can lower STS rates because changes may mask decreases in hearing. |
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| turnover; baseline; practices; equipment |
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| How can you evaluate the effectiveness of noise measures? |
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| Ask employees about noise levels |
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| How could you evaluate the effectiveness of noise controls? |
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| Test workers’ knowledge about controls & what is needed to maintain controls. Test managers too |
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| What is a way you could evaluate the effectiveness of audiometric monitoring? |
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| Find out about employees’ knowledge about audiometric results. |
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| What is a way you could evaluate the effectiveness of HPDs? |
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| Ask everyone to show proper insertion & removal of HPDs. |
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| What is a way you could evaluate the effectiveness of training and motivation? |
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| Give pre- & post-tests after annual training sessions. |
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| What is a way you could evaluate the effectiveness of the program effectiveness? |
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| Examine compensation claims. |
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