OSHA will allow the use of the NHANES age-correction data for the creation and use of age-correction tables other than the ones in Appendix F under certain conditions

OSHA’s current age-correction table, Appendix F, discontinues at age 60. More people are working into their sixties instead of retiring, and there is no adequate way to assess presbycusis (age-related hearing loss) in these workers using the current OSHA table. OSHA’s age-correction tables were based on a small sample size and research from the 1970’s. You advocate for the use of NHANES data-derived age-correction tables, stating that they are based on recent data with a much larger sample size and a wider age range sampled when compared to the OSHA age-correction tables. You provided a comparison of the OSHA age-correction tables and the newer NHANES data-derived age-correction tables that show age-related hearing loss continues to occur beyond age 60.

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