How can work cause you hearing loss
Undoubtedly your hearing capability is believed as a valuable asset to your life, which renders workable smartness to the way of doing work. Your capacity of hearing depends on profession or occupation which is one of the most responsible factors in the loss of hearing power. Although, hearing loss due to your type of work or work station is directly related to the damage of the inner ear from some short of noises or vibrations. Such loss is called Occupational hearing loss, whose intensity depends on your type of job. Simultaneously, the cause behind such loss occurs with due course of time on after working overtime, repetitive exposure to noisy environment and music.
If such things come into light then, there is a need to keep those working personnel aware of the causes and precautions. One should know the fact behind such dangerous effect of working in a loud environment. Actually, any repetitive sound can cause to your loss of attention from the surrounding elements, and this why a person need to fit an alarm bell to rise early in the morning. Find the cause and try not to involve with the same environment and if such happens, do take corrective action to eliminate the effect as soon as possible.
Now, let us think of your work which may cause hearing loss. Some workplace environment is enlisted under the producer of such illness which causes damage to your eardrums than other (workplace). Vibration due to certain machinery or elements in your workstation is the silent cause of hearing loss which includes some type of machinery, surroundings, or other hazardous articles. As I described above, your power to hear a voice is considered as the most valuable asset in the workplace, where you work either in office, functional or production, public dealing or other.
Your exposure to high volume working personnel like as sales, production or manufacturing units ultimately damage inner eardrum which causes in loss of hearing. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), millions people caught into hearing loss due to work. A person who does overtime effected by such illness on due course of time. Your exposure to potentially dangerous level of noise in the workplace per day, per month and per year helps in the increment of such issue.
Your work strengthen financial inclusion, but unhealthy levels of noise can be counted as the most common hearing loss factors and can also lead to alarming statistics in some work types. These probable work types or occupations covers manufacturing, construction, carpeting, mining and much more, which are in a large ratio in our country that are highly potential in sense of proving employment on large scale. Scientifically, a person who is forced to hear above the mentioned level of noise will be affected by hearing loss:
- Sound > 80 decibels (Db) can damage your inner ear by creating vibration, if such sound continues for a long time around or in your workstation
Be careful if you are about to hear such continuous level of sound or working with that. Generally, if a person needs to shout in order to hear a voice, certainly the intensity of such is in the range which damages your power of hearing.
A list of occupations or high risk job type is given below, which play major role in the damage of your inner ear:
ð Construction: This is the field where civil works need machinery to build structure. But, unfortunately it kills your hearing power day by day.
ð Farming: If you are in the occupation like farming then your repetitive use of high sound producing machinery turns you ill and you may not be able to hear the slow voice any more.
ð Airline: However, such job always surrounds high volume but especially the ground maintenance work lead to hearing loss due to continuous landing and take-off of flights as well as vibration made by heavy vehicles and passenger’s arrival-departure.
ð Media: The job which involves loud music or machinery like in media, where you cannot protect your ear from taking extreme volume inside your ear. Actually you are being paid for such.
ð Military or Defense: Such job which involves combat, aircraft or other heavy sounding van can affect your sound hearing capability.
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However, in most part of cases Government takes cares of such high volume generation through laws and regulation act. Such laws take care for the maximum job noise exposure that it is allowed accordingly. Here, both the length of exposure and level of decibel are taken into consideration. Now, it’s your duty too to take care of your hearing if such level crosses, you need to take mandatory steps to prepare your precautions.
Nowadays, people don’t think of the reversible effect of work and do overtime. Due to such over-working the capability of hearing effects and may cause permanent loss of heading. Take a tour to such parallel work type where over-time is done with priority:
1. Manufacturing Industries: This type of industry is counted among that most common type of occupation where such occupational illness is recorded on high level. This alarming increase in illness in this industry is obvious due to the availability of the large and loud sounded machinery. It is true that no work can be processed without such surrounding of machinery. It means the loss of hearing spread rapidly over time.
2. Construction, Carpentry, Mining: As I described above, the hearing loss due to the use of heavy construction machinery is detected in construction industry. You are forced to familiar with the surrounding like outside the window, on the move to work, the street of workstation, or other. You face extreme sound level at construction site and in the same way workers in carpentry profession are forced to hear high level sound of cutting machine. This could be the notable cause of hearing loss and is particularly most hazardous to other organ too like heart & brain. Such illness occurs due to long exposure to noise over 85 dB which is scientifically considered to be dangerous cause. In the same way, mining needs heavy tools to break the rock, and such work creates high noise under a mine.
Thus, your nature of work and type of workplace are responsible for increasing illness to hearing loss. It is mandatory to avoid such reasons which cause hearing loss. We should take right precaution while working at home or office/workplace, in order to protect against hearing loss.
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