Hearing At Work (2)
We spend a vast amount of our time at work, and hearing plays a key role for many of us in our personal effectiveness – whether it's communication with colleagues, clients or service users, or picking up important information that gives us the edge.
Broom Reid & Harris offer a range of services and products that help address the issues of hearing at work: from hearing loss in the workplace, to workplace noise, to the problems of concentrating in an open plan office, to the effects of room acoustics on productivity.
The most important tool at work is possibly also the most underrated: your sense of hearing. And if you employ people, it’s your staff’s hearing too. In this article we explore how hearing affects your business's effectiveness and what you can do to ensure it isn't compromised.
According to the Health and Safety Executive around 1 million employees in Great Britain are exposed to levels of noise that put their hearing at risk. It is the largest cause of preventable hearing loss we have in the UK. So both employers and employees have legal responsibilities to prevent or reduce those risks to health and safety from exposure to noise. But how?