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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.
Ann Widdecombe, former MP and Strictly Come Dancing star, last week helped charity, ‘Action on Hearing Loss’ launch their online campaign, also supported by BT, aimed at encouraging people to check for any signs of hearing loss.
As a result of wilful malpractice or neglect throughout most of the UK’s industrial past, the traditional engineering and manufacturing workplace has become forever associated with countless hundreds of thousands of workers enduring constant excessive levels of heavy machinery noise every single day of their working lives. The inevitable result was the incalculable numbers of employees who suffered severe hearing damage, which ultimately, led to permanent chronic industrial deafness.
It could be one of the best kept secrets in the industrial workplace, right to this very day. Certainly, industrial deafness consistently featured as the elephant in the room for most of the UK’s industrial past as employers simply failed to recognise the excessive noise levels, to which, many workers were constantly exposed during their period of employment.
WE Solicitors has met the strict criteria set out by APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers) to gain corporate accreditation status. The firm can now display the APIL logo as a mark of its expertise and dedication to finding justice for people injured through no fault of their own.
