Health, safety & environment

Whilst noise-induced hearing loss is understood, there is a lesser known condition, ototoxicity, also known as “poison of the ear”. What is it, what are the symptoms and what controls should you put in place to reduce the risk to your workers?

The HSE is asking bosses to shout at work to test if they have a workplace noise problem, and if the test returns a positive result it would like you to “CUFF” it! What does it have in mind and what action should you be taking?

Source. The HSE’s Workplace Health Expert Committee has summarised published scientific evidence to try to gain an understanding of the extent of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in British industry, but it is quick to point out that the data, from sources such as the International Labor Organization, are poor quality, so the results are more opinion than fact based. ...