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Hearing aids + hearing protection – what you need to know…
The HSE has just released new guidance on how best to manage the use of hearing protection for employees who wear hearing aids. The following is a summary, but you can also download a full advance copy. There are key … Continue reading
Categories: General News |ASA ruling: wrist mounted HAV monitors do not measure to the standard … not suitable for regulatory risk assessment..
Why did the Advertising Standards Authority have to rule on what should be common knowledge? What is HAVS monitoring best practice, what do insurers say and could zero monitoring be the best option? You would have thought that the issues surrounding … Continue reading
Categories: Analysis Systems, General News, Hand Arm Vibration, Training, Vibration |4 new things you should know about noise risk reduction best practice in industry
We are living in interesting times in the field of hearing damage risk reduction due to the host of new (and forthcoming) ways to reduce risk dramatically. Here are 4 new things that you should know about… Hearing test free app: launched … Continue reading
Categories: General News, Noise Assessment, Noise Control, Training |Wrist mounted vibration transducers – not again!
Once more there are claims that wrist/glove mounted vibration transducers can be used to assess HAV risk in operators as per the British Standard (BS5349). No they can’t. Thank you for listening… I would suggest that anyone considering using any of the wrist (or … Continue reading
Categories: General News |Radical update to noise risk management best practice launched at BOHS OH2017 conference
How to update the current (failing) noise risk management process to make it much more effective – and self-financing Noise Induced Hearing Loss claims of £400,000,000 per annum show that thousands of people are suffering hearing damage, most of which could … Continue reading
Categories: Construction / Demolition, General News, Noise Assessment, Noise Control, Training | Tags: Construction / Demolition, Noise control, noise training, Occupational Noise AssessmentsNoise competency update + risk management Master Class
The current noise risk management process has failed. This is how we fix it to reduce risk by c 90%… Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) claims currently running at about £400,000,000 per annum is unsustainable and demonstrates that current risk … Continue reading
Categories: Construction / Demolition, General News, Noise Assessment, Noise Control, Training | Tags: Construction / Demolition, Noise control, noise training, Occupational Noise AssessmentsHAV mis-measurement – to no standards whatsoever… New HSE guidance
Misunderstanding Hand Arm Vibration monitoring marketing material can put hands and safety policies at risk. Caveat emptor. Stop Press: 27/02/17: HSE has just issued new guidance on HAV measurement and management covering similar concerns. These may well change the way … Continue reading
Categories: Construction / Demolition, General News, Hand Arm Vibration, Training, Vibration | Tags: Hand-Arm Vibration, vibration trainingNew test, new best practice to reduce hearing damage risk
The availability of this new test will have a dramatic effect on the management of hearing loss prevention programmes… New technology has become available that provides companies with data that they can use to check the real world performance of their hearing … Continue reading
Categories: General News |Noise recording and analysis workshop
This is one of a number of highly rated, interactive and practical noise related workshops developed for Environmental Health Officers. They are held locally by a host authority, saving on travel, time – and at a fraction of the cost of … Continue reading
Categories: General News |Noise and HAV risk management – on site simplification
A simple way to cope with mobile plant and tools A question about a common problem that came up when giving a presentation at a recent IOSH meeting has a really simple answer. What struck me was the enthusiasm for … Continue reading
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