High price to pay for inadequate safeguards
February 1st 2008 A medical implants
manufacturer has been
ordered to pay £6500 in
compensation to one of its
polishers who suffered noiseinduced
hearing loss as a
result of working on spindles
to grind and finish surgical
implant components.
Despite high levels of
noise at the factory, the
employee, Alan Gosling, says
ear protection was not made
mandatory until around
January 2001 and he was not
aware of the long term
damage noise could cause.
Seggy Segaran, MD of First
Stop Safety comments "We
are seeing more and more
successful Noise Induced
Hearing Loss claims
throughout the UK, and this
trend seems set to continue
over the coming years."
He says that taking steps
to safeguard workers' health
need not be expensive as
noise at work surveys can be
carried out in-house, as can
hearing tests.
First Stop Safety provides
training in noise at work,
audiometry and the latest
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