New Zealand's take on industrial hearing loss

New Zealand's Department of Labour, roughly equivalent to the UK's Department for Work and Pensions, produced a batch of information regarding noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) for New Zealand Safety Week 2007.

Held in August or September each year, this week is designed to raise health and safety awareness for all workers, and the focus on industrial deafness and other forms of NIHL underlines how important the NZ government considers this to be.

But that seriousness does not become po-faced over-seriousness; the PowerPoint presentation that is freely available on their website, for example, opens with a joke: "Did you hear the one about the hospitality worker who didn't protect his hearing? Neither did he!"

Naturally, though, it returns to serious figures and advice in the rest of the materials to demonstrate how deafness and tinnitus may be avoided, discussing (for example) the control of the noise and the protection of the receivers of the noise, ie workers.

The presentation, along with various further useful pieces of information, can be accessed through the Department of Labour website, along with information from other years about other potential sources of personal injury that may feature in compensation claims.

Making an industrial hearing loss compensation claim
If you have been exposed to loud noises through your work that have led to complete or partial deafness, this presentation comes too late to be of help. But YouClaim may be able to help you make a compensation claim to cover past and future costs and damages that arise from your industrial injury.

We have a team of highly knowledgeable advisors who will be able to discuss your case in detail, in plain English, and help you decide if you have a good chance of making a successful compensation claim.

If you decide to proceed, you will be able to work with a highly skilled personal injury solicitor drawn from one of our panel firms, all of which are governed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority's professional rules.

Your representative will work on a no win, no fee basis, and will charge any winning fees to your opponent in a won case; this means your claim will be cost-free, win or lose, and we guarantee that all damages awarded pass to you, under our 100% compensation promise.

Call us today, on 0800 10 757 95, or use our website to chat online with an advisor, Alternatively, you can complete a claim form and we'll call you back at a time of your choice. Either way, we look forward to helping you begin your industrial hearing loss claim today.