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responsibility, or in any way shift personal responsibility for the results of any
individual's personal decisions or actions in any instance or over time to any
institution, or to NASM.38
Under the subsequent section, labeled 2. Guidelines and Recommendations, two new
items were added:
d. Normally, institutions or music programs have policies and protocols
that maintain strict distinctions between the provision of general musicians'
health information in the music program and the specific treatment of individuals
by licensed medical professionals.
e. Normally, institutions and music units develop their specific methods for
addressing health and safety issues in consultation with qualified professionals in
the fields of health and safety and any related areas.39
In lieu of this national acknowledgement officially recognizing health and safety
promotion by the NASM, and indirectly through earlier efforts by the PAMA, it was
prudent to consider research on current sound intensity levels within the educational
and professional music settings. Lang, author of Environmental Impact on Hearing: Is
Anyone Listening?, cites that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates "more
than 20 million Americans are exposed on a regular basis to industrial or recreational
noise that could result in hearing loss."40 She went on to include musicians in a list of
professions most susceptible to NIHL.41 Therefore, the question of whether musical
ensembles are capable of producing harmful levels of exposure is a necessary part of
the discussion. As a result, an investigation of the literature in this area was completed.
38 Ibid.
39 Ibid, 14-15.
40 Leslie Lang, "Environmental Impact on Hearing: Is Anyone Listening?" Environmental Health
Perspectives 102, no. 11 (November 1994): 924.
41 Ibid.8
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Albin, Aaron J. Conductor Awareness of, Knowledge of, and Attitude Toward Sound Intensity Levels Generated During Ensemble-based Instructional Activities in College-level Schools of Music, dissertation, August 2012; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149559/m1/21/?q=music&rotate=270: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .