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News that the planned third runway at Heathrow has been abolished, as one of the first of Coalition Chancellor’s George Osborne’s spending cutbacks, will be music indeed to the ears of local residents!
We regularly hear of individual cases of permanent hearing damage caused by a complete failure to implement Health & Safety precautions which would have prevented an unexpected incidence from causing severe injury or worse.
Being unaware that a loud noise in the workplace can cause permanent hearing damage may not exclude claiming compensation based on the date of first knowing of the hearing loss and its cause.
Mr B of Nottingham worked for the Ministry of Defence for nearly 20 years. He worked at the Dockyard in Chatham, Kent, where he was exposed to excessive noise, whilst employed as an Electrical Fitter.
Mr J of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, was a former Electrician for the National Coal Board, from 1971 to 1989. He is now 56 years old and suffers with hearing loss, which was caused by exposure to excessive noise at work.
