Its Just Noise! Clare Forshaw Occupational Health & Hygiene - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices It doesn’t kill you… 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices I’ll go deaf anyway! • 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 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Hearing Aids Just Turn up the Sound 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices We Can’t Insure the Problem Away • > £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 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Your Sector • Food and drink industry suffer the highest number of claims for IIDB than any other 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 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Current Noise Control Strategy 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Effectiveness of current approach… 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Which means… 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices A Fresh Approach… …to an old problem! 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Hierarchy of Control Eliminate Reduce – Substitution Reduce – Engineering Controls Administrative Controls Personal Protective Equipment 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices What does risk look like? • 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) 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices What does risk look like? • 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? 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Buy Quiet 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Self Financing Noise Control! • An engineering approach • How do things work – can they function and make less noise? – DESIGN – EFFICIENCY – MAINTENANCE 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Simples Solutions • Look at the noise source: – ISOLATE – DAMPEN – SMOOTH PATHWAYS OF AIR – IMPROVE CURRENT GUARDS – SEAL GAPS – SLOW DOWN… 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Consider Pathway of Noise 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Consider Pathway to the Worker • Enclose – at source • Barriers • Absorb in environment • Do workers need to be there? 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Then Protect the Worker • Hearing protection • Task rotation • Noise havens 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Hearing Protection 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! 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Hearing Protection – Wear Correctly 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Health Surveillance 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices Preventive Hearing Screening 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

A healthy worker, in a healthy workplace, making healthy lifestyle choices 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 01296 310450 | info@parkhs.co.uk

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