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Surveys consistently find that many men and women can often fail to recognise the onset of noise induced hearing loss by up to ten years after spending a number of years constantly exposed to significantly loud noise levels at their place of work.
The very real problems of noise induced hearing loss challenging British armed forces serving in Afghanistan has been raised previously, yet it seems growing numbers of serviceman are still leaving the army in 2011 suffering with hearing loss caused by combat conditions.
In the current economic climate, fear of losing your job for any reason is raised to new heights. Amongst the ten million people in the UK with hearing loss, of whom, around 3.7 million are of working age, hiding any slight inability to hear distinctly can also easily turn into simple self-denial, which can stay with someone for years after retirement.
Many retired men and women who spent most of their working lives on the ‘shopfloor’ of UK industry and manufacturing right up until the late 1970s, 80s and beyond will recall just how easy it was to forget about ‘factory noise’ and get used to simply using hand signals or shout when you needed to make yourself understood!