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Estimates for the number of people in the UK suffering from work-related noise-induced hearing loss can vary from around 75,000 to over 500,000. As a result of health & safety compliance legislation, awareness education, and injury compensation claims, improvements have been slowly made over the years, although widespread workplace noise levels still exist.
The dangers of loud music at rock concerts are highlighted, once again, in a slightly unusual court case, which saw an US couple persist for over seven years to obtain compensation for a long term hearing damage claim from the heavy metal band, Whitesnake.
Often, a personal injury through hearing loss case can be sometimes notoriously difficult to completely resolve due to many factors, not least due to producing hard evidence of a direct and sustained cause of hearing damage.
Excessive levels of noise in the workplace which result in industrial deafness are the basis of most compensation claims. Attributing a specific cause to tinnitus- a constant internal ringing or humming sound – can be notoriously difficult or impossible, especially if there was a known or suspected noise source, but which has since ceased.
Research conducted in recent years into industrial deafness have found some intriguing differences between male and female workers according to occupation.
