Noise Exposure

The essential issue in fighting noise induced hearing loss is the assessment of noise exposure. Hearing loss can be immediate with extreme sound levels, but, in general, the problem is exposure to noise, day after day, year after year. Harmful noise levels do not always cause pain, so there is, more often than not, no immediate reaction or complaint from the workforce. Unfortunately, however, when a person does realise that his/her hearing is severely impaired, it is too late to do anything about it.