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Police Officers May Experience Hearing Loss

Thursday, 13 May 2010 11:39

Police Radios May Damage Hearing

A report in the Police Review magazine refers to the numbers of police officers in the UK experiencing occupational hearing loss.

815 officers have reported occupational hearing loss in the last five years from a variety of causes including:

  • police radios - 75% of reports (due to'spikes' the screeching noise occasionally produced by a radio)
  • grenades
  • barking dogs
  • cannon fire
  • fireworks

The largest number of reports of occupational hearing loss came from Lancashire forces.

The Metropolitan Police Force and Northern Ireland did not respond to the request for information within the timescale for the report.

The report also refers to tinnitus as a further issue experienced by officers.

Read more on the report in the Telegraph Online ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 May 2010 11:48  

Newsflash

The RNID will be carrying out a research project into the provision of lipreading classes across England and Wales.

The project is being run in conjunction with ATLA, Hearing Concern LINK and UKCoD.

The project will be carried out in May/June 2010 and aims to look at lipreading class provision as a whole - including classes taught by ATLA members and other classes - to gain as accurate and complete a picture as possible.

The data collected will be used to inform the campaign for lipreading classes in England and Wales.

The RNID in Scotland has already carried out some research into lipreading class provision and thus Scotland is not included in this research project.

A new section on the campaign and research is available for ATLA members - simply log in for access.