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A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Its Just Noise! Clare Forshaw Occupational Health & Hygiene Partner 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy

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It’s Just Noise!

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices

Clare Forshaw Occupational Health & Hygiene Partner

01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

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It doesn’t kill you…

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I’ll go deaf anyway!

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  • Hearing loss results in high personal, societal and economic costs
  • Cost to the NHS in managing hearing loss in 2010/11 was estimated to be

£450million

  • Hearing loss impacts on labour productivity and economic growth costing an

estimated £18billion in lost productivity and unemployment

  • Hearing loss substantially increases the risks of accidental injury
  • There is growing evidence of other effects of noise on health, particularly

sleep disturbance and cardiovascular risk

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Hearing Aids Just Turn up the Sound

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We Can’t Insure the Problem Away

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  • > £350million paid out in claims – cyclical
  • BUT not sustainable!
  • What is a suitable defence?
  • Will this be ‘suitable’ in the future?
  • Move away from continuous noise surveys
  • Demonstrate cost benefit of intervention
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Your Sector

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  • Food and drink industry suffer the highest number of claims for IIDB than any
  • ther sector
  • 3 x more than the next highest sector, 4 x more than the average
  • Occupational deafness:

Sensorineural hearing loss amounting to at least 50dB in each ear, being the average of hearing losses at 1, 2 and 3 kHz frequencies and being due in the case of at least one ear to occupational noise

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Current Noise Control Strategy

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Effectiveness of current approach…

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Which means…

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A Fresh Approach…

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…to an old problem!

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Hierarchy of Control

Eliminate Reduce – Substitution Reduce – Engineering Controls Administrative Controls Personal Protective Equipment

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What does risk look like?

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  • Glass bottling lines: 85-100dB(A)
  • Product impact on hoppers: 90-100dB(A)
  • Wrapping, cutting wrap, bagging etc.: 85-95dB(A)
  • Bowl choppers: >90db(A)
  • Pneumatic noise and compressed air: 85-95dB(A)
  • Milling operations: 85-100dB(A)
  • Saws/cutting machinery: 85-107dB(A)
  • Blast chillers/freezers: 85-107dB(A)
  • Packaging machinery: 85-95dB(A)
  • Wheeled trolleys/racks: up to 107dB(A) (from wheel bearings)
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What does risk look like?

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  • Is the noise intrusive for most of the working day?
  • Do workers have to raise their voices to be heard when about 2 metres away

for at least part of the day?

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Buy Quiet

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Self Financing Noise Control!

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  • An engineering approach
  • How do things work – can they function and make less noise?

– DESIGN – EFFICIENCY – MAINTENANCE

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Simples Solutions

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  • Look at the noise source:

– ISOLATE – DAMPEN – SMOOTH PATHWAYS OF AIR – IMPROVE CURRENT GUARDS – SEAL GAPS – SLOW DOWN…

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Consider Pathway of Noise

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Consider Pathway to the Worker

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  • Enclose – at source
  • Barriers
  • Absorb in environment
  • Do workers need to be there?
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Then Protect the Worker

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  • Hearing protection
  • Task rotation
  • Noise havens
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Hearing Protection

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Hearing protection - use as:

  • Interim measure - prior to controls being fully implemented
  • Control solution - when exposures are ALARP but risks remain

Not an alternative to noise control Overprotection and Audibility!

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Hearing Protection – Wear Correctly

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Health Surveillance

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Preventive Hearing Screening

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MISSION STATEMENT ‘preventing noise induced hearing loss in workers and across society through practical, evidenced and cost-effective communications and solutions’ OBJECTIVES

  • To be a credible, independent source of information, knowledge and advice providing practical advice

and solutions to common workplace and public health noise problems

  • To be a force for influencing key stakeholders to shift attitudes and actions around noise and hearing loss

by raising awareness and education

  • To provide leadership in hearing conservation and influence others to take notice and make positive

changes to ‘buy quiet’, ‘turn it down’ and ‘conserve hearing’

  • Provide evidence and identify gaps in understanding to steer future research and innovation
  • Provide a forum for like-minded professionals to share ideas, collaborate and press for change
  • To serve as an independent reputable forum for review and debate of emerging guidance, standards and

regulation in this field

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