Sound advice on Noise Pollution

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Sound advice on Noise Pollution

14 Apr, 2008

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Jane Dawson
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Worldwide, increasingly stringent regulations are coming into force limiting the exposure of workers to industrial noise. Over 1 million employees in Great Britain are exposed to levels of noise which puts their hearing at risk and 170,000 suffer from deafness, tinnitus – ring, whistling, buzzing or humming in the ears – or other ear conditions as a result of exposure to excessive noise at work.

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