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Kaleva

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2. How do they violate OSHA standards?

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 9, 2018, 12:34 PM

Sep 2018

One would have to be using such machines for sometime in an 8 hour time period, an hour at 94 decibels and 15 minutes at 100 decibels, before going over OSHA standards.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/98-126/pdfs/98-126.pdf

Washroom attendants would be wearing hearing protection.

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Good for him. Those things are an abomination. 3Hotdogs Sep 2018 #1

How do they violate OSHA standards? Kaleva Sep 2018 #2

O.S.H.A. noise standards are simple to determine, even without a testing device. 3Hotdogs Sep 2018 #3

But you also have to be exposed to the noise over a certain period of time too. Kaleva Sep 2018 #4

I have never seen a washroom attendant wearing ear protection. 3Hotdogs Sep 2018 #5

I have never seen a washroom attendant, period. mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2018 #6

I'm from N.J. We have them in casinos and shore resort facilities. 3Hotdogs Sep 2018 #7