Workplace Report April 2010

Health & safety - HSE Monitor

“Buy Quiet” campaign

Businesses are being encouraged to “buy quiet” as part of a new HSE campaign which also encourages manufacturers to make quieter machinery in a bid to reduce noise-related ill health. Some 170,000 people have been made deaf or have developed other ear conditions from noise at work. An HSE workshop to launch the campaign included information on the legal requirements on noise emissions.