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Industrial injury benefits for occupational deafness
News Occupational safety The International Safety Exhibition will be held in association with the World Congress on the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases, at the RAI Exhibition Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 6 - 9 May 1980. It is organised by RAI Gebouw B.V. under the auspices of The Safety Institute (Stichting Het Veiligheidsinstituut). The exhibits will include: products that have been especially constructed with regard to the safety of the user, such as tools, machinery, lighting equipment, climbing and transport equipment, as well as safety devices for these products; appliances for the protection and safety of human lives, such as fireprevention and fire-fighting equipment, rescue equipment, warning and marking devices, detection, analysing and measuring equipment, as well as exhaust units and systems; products and working methods designed to improve working conditions and industrial hygiene, as well as accessories and appliances for medical aid in industries. The 9th World Congress on the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases is organized by The Safety Institute under the auspices of the International Social Security Association ISSA and the International Labour Office ILO, and in close cooperation with the authorities concerned in the Benelux countries. The central theme of the congress will be: "Recent developments in the prevention of accidents in enterprises".
SafeW and health standards More than 600 American National
Standards for safety and health are listed in a new edition of ANSI's catalogue on this subject. Standards are categorized under ten major subject headings: agriculture; construction; consumer and recreational products; electrical devices and wiring; fire protection; health and acoustics; highway and traffic; medical devices; occupational safety; and security. Those standards that are applicable to more than one category are listed under each appropriate heading. Within each category, the standards are arranged alphabetically according to key words. A separate compilation is included that lists
Guidance Literature (HSC 7), available
standards by their designations and cross references the sections and key words under which they are listed in the main body of this special catalogue.
free from the General Enquiry Point, Health and Safety Executive, Baynards House, 1 Chepstow Place, London W2 4TF.
Copies of the latest edition of
A merican National Standards for Safety and Health, SP8e, are available
Industrial injury benefits for occupational deafness
without charge from the Sales Department, American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA.
Industrial injury disablement benefit for occupational deafness is being extended to cover more workers in noisy jobs. Extension of the scheme was recommended in a report
Workplace safety Speaking at a management forum in London, Mr Bill Simpson, Chairman of the Health and Safety Commission said that recent surveys had shown that industry had not found government regulation in the field of workplace safety and health unwelcome. The Chief Executive journal found that of the firms they interviewed, 45 '8% wanted more government intervention in the area of environmental protection, and 51" 1% were satisfeid with the present level. Only 3" 1% would rather have had less. And smaller firms felt no differently. In an Opinion Research Centre survey earlier this year, less than 0.5% of the small firms interviewed found helath and safety regulations a main difficulty in running their business - it was by far the least important in the league table. And yet 28% had had health and safety enforcement action taken against them.
Occupational Deafness: Report by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (Cmnd 7266), and has decided to accept these recommendations in full. Benefit for occupational deafness will be extended as soon as possible to: workers who use pneumatic percussive tools on metal or for drilling rock or coal, and to those who supervise or assist in such work. At present only the tool users in certain restricted companies are covered. workers in textile weaving sheds or on texturing machines. workers on metal nail cutting and cleaning machines. workers who operate plasma guns for spraying metal coatings.
Regulations, in the right cases, he said, resulted in a higher standard of voluntary compliance than any other published recommendation or guidance. They allowed workpeople to press for specific objectives and they enabled manufacturers to avoid disputes about what was or was not reasonabl~¢ practicable. So, where standards were necessary and could be defined, regulations served the purpose. But the Commission also had a new, quasilegal device, the Approved Code of Practice. They had published a leaflet setting out exactly what kind of procedures they could draw on in this field, but briefly, the Approved Code was for situations where there might be several ways of achieving the objective, and the manager who chose a way that was as good or better than that in the Code had the right to go ahead. Of course, if there was a possible breach of the law he would have to prove his case. The leaflet is Regulations,
Approved Codes of Practice and
The definition of occupational deafness will be eased and people whose claims failed under the old definition will be able to claim again. The scale for assessment of disablement used by doctors in deciding the degree of disability will also be amended to reflect more accurately the nature of occupational deafness - 100% disablement benefit will be paid for a hearing loss of over 105 dB instead of 90 dB as at present - but no existing t~eneficiary will become worse off as a result.
Work accidents and industrial diseases More than 1500 people died from accidents at work or from prescribed industrial diseases in 1976 according to comprehensive statistics published by the Health and Safety Executive.
Health and Safety Statistics 19 76, (HM Stationery Office, price £1.75 plus postage.) A total of 569 people - the lowest figure for at least 50 years - died in accidents in industries covered by the Health and Safety Commission, compared with 611 in 1975. A further 324 034 people were
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SafeW and health standards More than 600 American National
Standards for safety and health are listed in a new edition of ANSI's catalogue on this subject. Standards are categorized under ten major subject headings: agriculture; construction; consumer and recreational products; electrical devices and wiring; fire protection; health and acoustics; highway and traffic; medical devices; occupational safety; and security. Those standards that are applicable to more than one category are listed under each appropriate heading. Within each category, the standards are arranged alphabetically according to key words. A separate compilation is included that lists
Guidance Literature (HSC 7), available
standards by their designations and cross references the sections and key words under which they are listed in the main body of this special catalogue.
free from the General Enquiry Point, Health and Safety Executive, Baynards House, 1 Chepstow Place, London W2 4TF.
Copies of the latest edition of
A merican National Standards for Safety and Health, SP8e, are available
Industrial injury benefits for occupational deafness
without charge from the Sales Department, American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA.
Industrial injury disablement benefit for occupational deafness is being extended to cover more workers in noisy jobs. Extension of the scheme was recommended in a report
Workplace safety Speaking at a management forum in London, Mr Bill Simpson, Chairman of the Health and Safety Commission said that recent surveys had shown that industry had not found government regulation in the field of workplace safety and health unwelcome. The Chief Executive journal found that of the firms they interviewed, 45 '8% wanted more government intervention in the area of environmental protection, and 51" 1% were satisfeid with the present level. Only 3" 1% would rather have had less. And smaller firms felt no differently. In an Opinion Research Centre survey earlier this year, less than 0.5% of the small firms interviewed found helath and safety regulations a main difficulty in running their business - it was by far the least important in the league table. And yet 28% had had health and safety enforcement action taken against them.
Occupational Deafness: Report by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (Cmnd 7266), and has decided to accept these recommendations in full. Benefit for occupational deafness will be extended as soon as possible to: workers who use pneumatic percussive tools on metal or for drilling rock or coal, and to those who supervise or assist in such work. At present only the tool users in certain restricted companies are covered. workers in textile weaving sheds or on texturing machines. workers on metal nail cutting and cleaning machines. workers who operate plasma guns for spraying metal coatings.
Regulations, in the right cases, he said, resulted in a higher standard of voluntary compliance than any other published recommendation or guidance. They allowed workpeople to press for specific objectives and they enabled manufacturers to avoid disputes about what was or was not reasonabl~¢ practicable. So, where standards were necessary and could be defined, regulations served the purpose. But the Commission also had a new, quasilegal device, the Approved Code of Practice. They had published a leaflet setting out exactly what kind of procedures they could draw on in this field, but briefly, the Approved Code was for situations where there might be several ways of achieving the objective, and the manager who chose a way that was as good or better than that in the Code had the right to go ahead. Of course, if there was a possible breach of the law he would have to prove his case. The leaflet is Regulations,
Approved Codes of Practice and
The definition of occupational deafness will be eased and people whose claims failed under the old definition will be able to claim again. The scale for assessment of disablement used by doctors in deciding the degree of disability will also be amended to reflect more accurately the nature of occupational deafness - 100% disablement benefit will be paid for a hearing loss of over 105 dB instead of 90 dB as at present - but no existing t~eneficiary will become worse off as a result.
Work accidents and industrial diseases More than 1500 people died from accidents at work or from prescribed industrial diseases in 1976 according to comprehensive statistics published by the Health and Safety Executive.
Health and Safety Statistics 19 76, (HM Stationery Office, price £1.75 plus postage.) A total of 569 people - the lowest figure for at least 50 years - died in accidents in industries covered by the Health and Safety Commission, compared with 611 in 1975. A further 324 034 people were
Applied Ergonomics June 1979
123