Aug 19, 2025 | News
Pacifica Foundation Radio Workers Face Hazards; Tech Threatens Rights; Federal Labor Unions Fight Back University of Michigan professor Dr. Adam Finkel is a former OSHA whistleblower and current occupational and environmental scientist. He spoke to Pacifica’s Thomas...
Aug 19, 2025 | News
CNHI LLC Wildfire smoke, expected to return, packs double whammy for outdoor workers Wildfire smoke, forecast to return to parts of northern Michigan next week, has become a reality for the state, and the workers most often exposed to it often have less protection,...
Aug 19, 2025 | News
Lancaster Online Data center noise won’t be regulated by Lancaster city ordinances Chris Reber- Staff Writer During a news conference Tuesday, July 22, 2025, it was announced that the Lancaster East data center will be developed by Chirisa Technology Parks and...
Jun 27, 2025 | News
The Detroit News Opinion: Don’t let Michigan workers pay the price for budget cuts COHSE Directors: Rick Neitzel, Stuart Batterman, Adam Finkel, Marie O’Neill, Alexis Handal, Marie-Anne Rosemberg, Marjorie McCullagh, Leia Stirling and Sheryl Ulin Every...
Oct 21, 2024 | News
What is noise pollution? Natalie Rahhal :Reporter 10/7/2024 Historically, experts tell Yahoo Life, noise pollution meant “unwanted sound.” But that’s subjective. “My music could be sound to me and noise to you,” Rick Neitzel, a University of Michigan professor of...
Sep 17, 2024 | News
TUESDAY, Sept. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The latest AirPods from Apple will come with built-in hearing aids, the company announced Monday. Designed as an over-the-counter hearing aid feature for those with mild to moderate hearing loss, users take hearing...
Jun 5, 2024 | News
May 28, 2024 About 78% of participants in the Apple Hearing Study, conducted by the University of Michigan, have experienced tinnitus—the perception of sound that others do not hear. That is just one of the findings that University of Michigan researchers and Apple...
Jun 3, 2024 | News
How noise harms hearing: We’ve known for centuries that too much noise can cause hearing loss, says Richard Neitzel. He works at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Some 200 years ago, accounts described blacksmiths who developed hearing loss from their constant...
Jun 3, 2024 | News
NPR: An unprecedented study that could pave the way for safer listening practices In 2019, Neitzel and his team at the University of Michigan launched the Apple Hearing Study, a first-of-its-kind study with Apple geared toward understanding people’s daily sound...
Jun 3, 2024 | News
Hearing health, and how technology can hurt and help it, is one of three long-term studies Apple is running: CNET: Apple Announces Preliminary Insights on Tinnitus From Its Hearing Study
