Occupational health and safety

Hearing: a guide to preventing risks

Publié le null - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

The Ministry of Labor has published a guide entitled "Hearing, a Capital to be Preserved" which provides advice and recommendations on the risks of noise and its effects on the human body.

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Directed primarily to music and entertainment professionals, this guide is also aimed at a wider audience (project managers, occupational physicians, etc.). Its aim is to alert the public to the risks posed by noise exposure and to present the various solutions to this danger.

Thus, this guide tells us that more than 50% professionals working in the music sector suffer from hearing problems because of their work.

It also recalls the irreversible effects of exposure to high sound levels (deafness, tinnitus, acute sound disturbances...) and offers recommendations adapted to the various sectors of the show.

The guide “Hearing, a capital to preserve” offers 5 main factsheets:

  • Card 1 : What are the risks to hearing and how can they be prevented?
  • Card 2 : How can individual monitoring of workers exposed to high noise levels be ensured?
  • Card 3 How to design and arrange music venues to prevent hearing risks?
  • Card 4 : How to optimally sound-proof amplified music venues?
  • Card 5 : What individual hearing protections?

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