{"id":1269,"date":"2022-01-18T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1269"},"modified":"2022-02-01T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:32:44","slug":"1269","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/chapter\/1269\/","title":{"raw":"Hearing loss","rendered":"Hearing loss"},"content":{"raw":"Exposure to loud noise over a long period of time can cause hearing loss, even if the noise is not loud enough to cause pain. Earplugs or earmuffs shall be worn in any shop or job site where the general or steady-state noise level exceeds 85 decibels. Basically, if you have to raise your voice to be heard by someone who is less than two feet away, you need to be wearing hearing protection.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_128\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"601\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1322\/2021\/03\/A1-Noise-Levels-Figure-1-Page-41.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-128 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1322\/2021\/03\/A1-Noise-Levels-Figure-1-Page-41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"598\" \/><\/a> Figure 1 \u2014 Noise levels[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\"><strong>Watch the WorkSafeBC video \"<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AIl_LIIMcAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hazards of Sound Exposure<\/a>\".<\/strong><\/div>","rendered":"<p>Exposure to loud noise over a long period of time can cause hearing loss, even if the noise is not loud enough to cause pain. Earplugs or earmuffs shall be worn in any shop or job site where the general or steady-state noise level exceeds 85 decibels. Basically, if you have to raise your voice to be heard by someone who is less than two feet away, you need to be wearing hearing protection.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128\" style=\"width: 601px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1322\/2021\/03\/A1-Noise-Levels-Figure-1-Page-41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-128 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1322\/2021\/03\/A1-Noise-Levels-Figure-1-Page-41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1322\/2021\/03\/A1-Noise-Levels-Figure-1-Page-41.png 601w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1322\/2021\/03\/A1-Noise-Levels-Figure-1-Page-41-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1322\/2021\/03\/A1-Noise-Levels-Figure-1-Page-41-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1322\/2021\/03\/A1-Noise-Levels-Figure-1-Page-41-65x65.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1322\/2021\/03\/A1-Noise-Levels-Figure-1-Page-41-225x224.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1322\/2021\/03\/A1-Noise-Levels-Figure-1-Page-41-350x348.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1 \u2014 Noise levels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"textbox shaded\"><strong>Watch the WorkSafeBC video &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AIl_LIIMcAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hazards of Sound Exposure<\/a>&#8220;.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1269","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1119,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1269\/revisions\/1652"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1119"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1269\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}