Hearing Loss Advice

If the problems of noise induced hearing loss are not traumatic enough for an ageing individual reaching or having just taken retirement, recent research has found that...

Previous studies of industrial deafness have found key gender differences, which can be a factor influencing susceptibility to hearing damage risk within a noisy workplace.

The issue of noise tolerance is known to be a key factor in failing to recognise the onset of noise induced hearing loss.

It has generally been found that it can take around ten years for some individuals to come to terms that they are suffering form a gradually deteriorating hearing loss.

The introduction of the updated Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2006, provides extended rules on protecting employees against noise induced hearing loss, extended to all types of workplaces...

Hearing loss is considered the planet’s most prevalent personal injury with an estimated 10 per cent, or almost 600 million people worldwide, possessing some form of hearing impairment.

Noise can be continually in the background in a number of occupations, and both men and women with some of form of hearing loss may not become aware of the condition until their hearing has significantly deteriorated to become a permanent handicap.

Tinnitus is recognised as a symptom of an underlying and deteriorating noise induced hearing loss with possible physical causes ranging from high blood pressure/cholesterol and diabetes to middle ear infections/blockages or inner ear tumours.

There is no doubt that since the implementation of the Control of Noise at Work Regulations,1989 and 2006, together with the successful prosecution of employers who failed to protect their workforce from noise induced hearing loss, many workplaces...

Permanent hearing loss can be caused by long, uninterrupted periods of constant exposure to excessive levels of noise.