Block 4 Flashcards
(178 cards)
What program was designed to protect workers from the harmful effects of hazardous noise?
The USAF Hearing Conservation Program (HCP)
Who evaluates work areas for sources of hazardous noise as well as determines hazardous noise areas and makes recommendations to control exposures?
You do silly! Get with the program yo!
What is the Air Force Regulation that governs the Occupational Noise and Hearing Conservation Program?
AFI 48-127
What is the OSHA regulation that governs the Occupational Noise Program?
29 CFR 1910.95
Who is the manager of the Occupational Health Program?
The Aerospace Medicine Squadron/Air Reserve Component (ARC) Medical Unit Commander
Hearing conservation issues are considered through what entity?
The OEHWG of course!
Who performs fitness and risk evaluations by conducting job safety analysis? They also identify newly added noise hazard work tasks or areas noted during period safety inspections to BE?
Wing and/or Base Ground Safety
Who is responsible for:
Protecting the hearing of assigned personnel?
Ensure their workplace complies with OSHA, DOD, and the AF HCP
Properly labels hazardous noise areas
Notifies BE if controls change
Uses engineering controls as primary means of eliminating exposure
Ensures the HPDs are provided
Conducts initial and annual workplace specific hearing conservation training
Notifies each employee that is exposed to greater than 85 dBA the results of the BE noise survey
And notifies each worker of the hazard noise sources?
Squadron Commanders and Workplace Supervisors
Who performs audiometric hearing testing?
Public Health
Who complies with all hazardous noise control measures including the proper use of HPDs?
Employees
Who is responsible for approving hearing protection devices?
You and all your other wanna-BEs!
What is unwanted sound?
Noise
Who prevents workers compensation claims?
BE
What is any pressure variation in air, water, or some other medium that the human ear can detect?
Sound
What is a longitudinal wave that is created by vibrating objects that spreads through a medium from one location to another?
Sound
What do you call it when air molecules are drawn away from the surrounding air to create an area of lower atmospheric pressure?
Rarefaction
A repetitive wave-like motion is known as a _______________?
Sound Wave
Who is the coolest TSgt in the USAF as of 31JUL16?
TSgt Walker!!!!! RECOGNIZE!
What is the speed of sound?
Velocity
The higher the temperature is, the faster the ___________________.
Velocity
Velocity increases as a material’s density____________________
Increases
True/False
Sound always travels faster in water and solids than it does in the air?
True
That’s Trudeau
True/False
The speed(velocity) of a sound wave is always equal to the product of the wavelength and frequency.
Velocity=wavelength X frequency
True dat
What is the distance from one point of a sound wave to the same point on the next wave? It is the distance that a sound wave travels in one cycle.
WAVELENGTH