Compensation Formula for Hearing Loss,

Abstract

The Committee on Hearing, Bioacoustics and Biomechanics (CHABA) was asked by the Bureau of medicine and Surgery of the Department of the Navy to draft this report which would provide a formula for converting the pure-tone audiometric thresholds of federal employees into percentages of binaural hearing impairment. Under the restriction that the dollar compensation for the new formula using audiometric frequencies measured at 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000 Hz would be approximately the same for each employee as those computed using the previous formula developed by the American Academy of Opthalmology and Otolaryngology (AA) which had used the audiometric frequencies of 500, 1,000 and 2,000 Hz, CHABA was not asked to evaluate the dollar importance of hearing loss, per se. Nor was it asked to evaluate the importance of hearing loss relative to other disabilities, sensory and physical, for which federal employees are compensated.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA014487

Entities

People

  • W. Dixon Ward

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bioacoustics
  • Biomechanics
  • Compensation
  • Frequency
  • Hearing Loss
  • Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
  • Otorhinolaryngology

Readers

  • Auditory Neuroscience/Auditory Physiology.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Theoretical Analysis.