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The long history of industrial deafness that has afflicted construction workers, miner, steel makers, aircraft and shipbuilders, mechanics, and the many others who work with noisy machinery and heavy equipment is well known and documented. But even in the post-industrial age of modern societies, there are still some professions which often can be just as noisy, according to several new studies.
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!
It is estimated that, worldwide, there will be more than 700 million people suffering from a hearing loss of more than 25 dB by 2015. In the developed world alone, the number of hearing-impaired people will reach 215 million. Of those, some 90 million will be Europeans, although in developing countries, the number is twice as large.
Mr Wade wins £5750.00 payout after working as a fabric examiner and stenter at Exquisite Knitwear and J Hepworth & Sons Ltd (now known as Next PLC).
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.
