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Leisure bosses need to protect staff from loud music
With the new 24 hour licensing laws now in place calls for employers to pay greater attention to the Noise at Work Regulations Act, 1989. If workers are to be in a noisy environment for longer periods of time then employers will be faced with more and more personal injury claims. There has been a measured increase in the amount of injury claims brought by employees in the leisure industry. If hearing problems can be attributed to negligence in the workplace then the employee has a valid compensation claim against their employer.
Telephonists, working in Irish call centres are also at risk of sustaining a hearing loss injury. An audiologist in Ireland has tested thirty former telephonists who worked for Eircom, the Irish telecommunications company, and found that they all suffered some kind of tinnitus or hearing loss.
The type of hearing loss sustained is similar to that experienced by soldiers who had worked on firing ranges, but was at a different frequency. The problem makes it difficult for group situations and sufferers find it difficult to follow a conversation. BT has also had to compensate several former employees who have suffered acoustic shock damage.
