Employee Benefits
Employees enjoy many benefits from an effective hearing conservation program, including:
- The hearing conservation program's most obvious benefit to employees is that it saves their hearing and ability to communicate.
- A good hearing conservation program can identify minor changes in hearing, and prevent deterioration to the point where it is permanent.
- Preventing hearing loss benefits employees all through life, not just in retirement, since the ability to communicate is critical.
- in all of our interpersonal relationships. When good hearing is a prerequisite for a job, an effective hearing conservation program will enable employees to sustain their hearing ability and thus continue to qualify for jobs (perhaps higher level) that have such requirements.
- Employees in companies with effective hearing conservation programs report they generally feel better and less tired or irritable.
- Employees also report that they are no longer bothered by temporary reductions in hearing ability at the end of the day, or by the tinnitus (ringing in the ears) that often accompanies the development of noise-induced hearing loss.
- Noise reduction and maintenance of hearing sensitivity help employees hear alarms and malfunctioning machines.
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5-4. The most obvious hearing conservation program benefit to employees is that it _____.
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