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NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA No. 2002-0131-2898, Fort Collins Police Services, Fort Collins, Colorado.

PB2004100295

Publication Date	2003
Personal Author	Tubbs, R. L.; Murphy, W. J.
Page Count	35
Abstract	The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received an employee request for a health hazard evaluation of the Fort Collins Police Service in Fort Collins, Colorado, in January 2002. The department was concerned about noise exposures and potential hearing damage from weapons training on their indoor and outdoor firing ranges. One specific concern was the Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team of the Fort Collins Police Services and the type of customized hearing protection that they had recently purchased for the team members to use during training and deployment. To address these concerns, NIOSH conducted a temporary threshold shift (TTS) study of officers hearing following weapons firing on a standard qualification course on the indoor and outdoor firing ranges. NIOSH investigators also used an acoustic mannequin head to measure noise levels produced by all weapons used by this department. This allowed for the measurement of noise levels when different hearing protection devices were placed on the mannequin, simulating the noise from weapons on protected and unprotected fars.
Keywords	Occupational safety and health Police Ranges(Facilities) Auditory defects NIOSH Investigations Occupational exposure Training Small arms Acoustics Firing ranges Fort Collins(Colorado)
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Corporate Authors	National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH. Div. of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies.
Supplemental Notes	This document is color dependent and/or in landscape layout. It is currently available on CD-ROM and paper only. The product is a 35 page report on one (1) CD-ROM disc.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200326

NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA No. 2002-0131-2898, Fort Collins Police Services, Fort Collins, Colorado.

NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA No. 2002-0131-2898, Fort Collins Police Services, Fort Collins, Colorado.
PB2004100295

Publication Date	2003
Personal Author	Tubbs, R. L.; Murphy, W. J.
Page Count	35
Abstract	The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received an employee request for a health hazard evaluation of the Fort Collins Police Service in Fort Collins, Colorado, in January 2002. The department was concerned about noise exposures and potential hearing damage from weapons training on their indoor and outdoor firing ranges. One specific concern was the Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team of the Fort Collins Police Services and the type of customized hearing protection that they had recently purchased for the team members to use during training and deployment. To address these concerns, NIOSH conducted a temporary threshold shift (TTS) study of officers hearing following weapons firing on a standard qualification course on the indoor and outdoor firing ranges. NIOSH investigators also used an acoustic mannequin head to measure noise levels produced by all weapons used by this department. This allowed for the measurement of noise levels when different hearing protection devices were placed on the mannequin, simulating the noise from weapons on protected and unprotected fars.
Keywords	Occupational safety and health Police Ranges(Facilities) Auditory defects NIOSH Investigations Occupational exposure Training Small arms Acoustics Firing ranges Fort Collins(Colorado)
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Corporate Authors	National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH. Div. of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies.
Supplemental Notes	This document is color dependent and/or in landscape layout. It is currently available on CD-ROM and paper only. The product is a 35 page report on one (1) CD-ROM disc.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200326