Massive (£400 million pa), unsustainable hearing damage claims demonstrate that current PPE-dominated noise risk reduction programmes have not worked. Period. For a health risk that is 100% preventable. It's time to stop people from suffering unnecessary hearing damage by changing the way risk is managed. This is how to cut the risk of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) in virtually any organisation by 75%-90% whilst simultaneously reducing costs. Does that sound like a plan?
HSE research (report RR720) proved that hearing protection is very often ineffective. The assumption that PPE is a reliable “solution” to hearing damage risk problems is simply untrue. This assumption has left many personnel at risk and companies open to claims if their hearing conservation policy was based on issuing PPE to affected personnel. There is a solution. Hearing risk management programmes can be updated to reduce risk dramatically at negligible or no cost - or even at a profit as the revised best practice will often cost less than current expenditure.
This is how to update your noise risk management programme >