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[Hearing Lors Compensation Criteria Lsed by the Department of
Labor under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act]. December
27, 1976. 7 pp.
Report to Fred G. Clark, Assistant Secretary for Administration
and Management# Department of Labor; by Frank H. Kikes,
Assistant Director. Human Resources Div.
Issue Area: Consumer and Worker Protection (900).
Contact: Human Resources Div.
Budget Function: Education, manpower, and Sccial Services: Other
Labor Services (505).
Organization Concerned: office of Workers' Compensation
Programs; National Academy of Sciences: Committee on
Hearing, Bioacoustics and Bioaechanics: National Inst. for
Occupational Safety and Health; American Academy of
Ophthalmology and Otolaryagology.
Au.hority: Federal Bmployees' Compensation Act.
As part of a review of the administration of the
Federal Employeest Compensation Act, an evaluation was conducted
of criteria used by the Office of Workers' Compensaticn Programs
(OECP) for awarding compensation for hearing loss. The review
focused on one element of the criteria that is at variance with
studies conducted by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and
otolaryngology, the National Institute of Occupational Safety
and Health, and the National Academy of Sciences* Committee on
Hearing, Bioacoustics and Biosechanics. This element is the
formula used for computing hearing loss based on levels of
loudness at which a person can hear various frequencies,
deducting a value from the frequencies for normal ranges of
loss. Findings/Conclusions: The OWCP method differed from the
other accepted methods by making deductions from each of the
frequencies rather than from an average value. The differences
in these methods could represent about $1.900 more per case, or
a total of S9 millioL, by using the OWCP method.
Recommendations: Consideration should be given to the averaging
method before completion of future studies on hearing loss
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