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Show Apul 5. 2001 Commissary changing oolicv for SSN on checks Hearing loss is overlooked health issue on harin loss in children are a frequently overlooked health issue but the Select Committee on Children and Youth isn't overlooking it. The committee conduced a series of hearings on hearing loss in children and brought leading medical and audiological researchers in the field of hearing loss to Washington, D.C. The conclusions of this committee are of vital interest to parents anxious about the hazards of noise for our chil- there is no same time limit for exposure at 1 15 deYibels. Recreational headsets are decibels. reportedly used at are around 100 decibels, the level of the semi truck whose driver needs hearing protection if exposed more than 15 minutes. A survey of 1,500 Ohio high school students found 72 percent regularly used personal stereos with headphones, 96 percent used stereos, 43 percent went to rock concerts and 30 percent used firearms. These teenagers were asked to rate a comfortable listening level for their stereos. A comfortable listening level ranged from 73 to 1 1 decibels. It is of little wonder that national studies of high school students show increashearing loss. ing incidences of dren. A decibel is a measure of sound. Sound is measured on a logarithmic scale, which means that a small change in the number on the scale represents a large change in the adual intensity of the sound. Any noise above HI decibels is considered hazardous in the workplace and hearing protection is required. There is no agency to provide similar rules to protect against equally loud leisure noise, listening to boom boxes, stereo headphones, playing in the school band, rock concerts, lawn mowers, firearms and some toys can over time result in permanent hearing loss, f ireworks are so dangerously loud they can cause a XTmanent hearing loss with just one exposure. Rock concerts average 98 decibels with peaks well above 115 decibels. Workers are allowed less than HO minutes exposure without hearing protection at 98 decibels and liven more alarming tlian the turn their stereos is the noise level of some toys. A worried teacher sent two examples of toys to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati, Ohio during the year I was there. We measured a baby rattle at 103 decibels. Occupational exposure limit for 103 decibels is seven minutes. Another toy, The Horn," was measured with a maximum output of 1 1 5 decibels. This is as loud as airplane engines. Without hearing protection, occupational exposure would be 30 seconds. How do you know when a sound is hazardous? A good rule of thumb is if you have to raise your voice to be understood within three feet, you are in hazardous noise. For more information on hearing protection for the whole family visit or call the Health and Wellness Center at Kxt. by Lt. Col. Carolyn Bennett Health and Wellness Center I'arrnts art- - often com er rnd about possi- ble hearing loss from the music our children habitually enjoy. Sometimes we feel isolated in this concern. Ill' ef feds of noise noise-induce- noise-induce- Iawn-mower- s 85-10- 0 d d 1 noise-induce- d pre-scho- pre-scho-ol bers misappropriated at a DeCA commissary," said Fred Stein, DeCA's security officer. "Our customers' checks are safeguarded like cash and FORT LHE. Va. Starting in May, the Defense Commissary Agency will no longer require customers to put their Social Security Numbers on checks when paying for their gro- ceries. "Our customers are telling us they are increasingly concerned about disclosing personal information on their checks that may result in 'identity theft,' violations of personal pri- fraud or personal financial loss," said Air Force Col. Ed Jones, DeCA's comptroller. "We are listening to our patrons and are taking the steps needed to reduce their exposure to vacy, these risks." As national anxiety over identify theft mounted and various civilian retailers stopped asking for SSN's, remain under positive control of appropriate commissary personnel until they are deposited in the bank." But just to be sure, DeCA worked hard to change its systems. This means that by May, commissary patrons will no longer be required to show a SSN on the front of their personal check. It also means that the agency is modifying its cash register system to stop printing SSN's on the back of checks. DeCA has developed a closed system to safely retain the SSN to comply with U.S. Treasury guidelines for collecting bad check information. The cashier will enter this information when the customer's identificamilitary shoppers began asking DeCA tion is checked at the register. to change too. As a result, customers "The results of this will have extra security and the conbusiness process will ensure transvenience of not having to write their SSN on a check when shopping at action confidentiality and approprithe commissary. DeCA is taking these ate audit trails are maintained with positive steps even though there was the assurance that individual idenlittle or no risk in DeCA's current tity is protected," said John Goodman, DeCA's program manager for requirement for SSN's on checks. the cash register system. "There is a very low probability of Ethnic Hairstyling WIOTE1 Poiice Academy Students customers having their identities stolen or their Social Security Num- by Kevin Hennelly Defense Commissary Agency 5Hffi00 a$t month at WSU's Utah Liw Kiitorti'incnt Academy, Jl i tan prepare von career. The. Sat., 8 A.M. NOON -- lor a rewariims; program certifies law enforcement officers. 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