Archive for the ‘Hearing Loss Claims’ Category
Recording Sound Assessments And Reducing Hearing Damage
Since the introduction in the UK of the first Control Of Noise at Work Regulations in 1989, which replaced the Health and Safety at Work Act,1974, it may have been assumed that the problems of workplaces with the potential to cause hearing damage by subjecting their employers to noise levels exceeding statutory limits no longer exist.
The statistics for men and women suffering some form of hearing loss in the UK should give real cause for concern. It is too readily assumed that the advance of research, awareness, technology and legislation had solved most of the circumstances that give rise to widespread noise induced hearing loss.
A veteran bin man who has to wear hearing aids in both ears after a council failed to provide him with protective equipment has been paid more than £8,000 in compensation.
Mr R of Nelson, Lancashire was awarded £6,000 damages as a result of suffering hearing loss and tinnitus due to being exposed to excessive noise in the workplace.
Former Doffer at Maple Mill Awarded £4,000.
Mr. B of Oldham was a former Doffer for Courtaulds, Maple Mill in Oldham, where he worked for 7 years. He is now 59 years old and suffers with hearing loss, which was caused by exposure to excessive noise at work.