Industrial deafness & tinnitus compensation claims

Safe working environment

Your employer has a duty to provide a safe working environment. However, until recently, many employers have failed to fully appreciate the medical problems associated with noise. Nor have they taken sufficient steps to prevent workers from being exposed to it.

As a result, many employees have suffered problems of deafness and tinnitus.

What are the symptoms of noise induced hearing loss and tinnitus?

Whilst the damage is inflicted in the workplace, the symptoms of noise induced hearing loss are often not noticeable until combined with age-related issues several years later. It may be that medical experts advise you would benefit from wearing hearing aids a lot earlier than would otherwise have been the case.

The loss of hearing that results from workplace noise can have a profound effect on the quality of your work, social and family life. Not being able to hear someone properly when there is background noise or even being able to hear the television, the telephone or doorbell ringing. Not being able to enjoy conversations for fear of having to ask people to repeat themselves again and again. Some sufferers even find themselves avoiding social events for the same reasons.

Deafness is made even worse for some people by tinnitus. The continuous ringing and buzzing they hear in the ears or at odd times, can be very disturbing especially if it affects their sleep. In summary, deafness deprives many sufferers from enjoying a normal and healthy life.