Loud music 'risks staff hearing'
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Ear-splitting music in pubs and clubs is putting staff's hearing at serious risk, say campaigners.
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As any cell-phone user knows, background noise, including traffic jams and bustling streets, can be a nuisance. The cacophony becomes even worse when the caller insists on yelling over the noise.
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Parents and teachers need to watch out more carefully for head injuries in children, a charity is warning.
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It can be hard to concentrate at Kel &amp; Partners in Westborough, where there are no cubicles or offices. So, copy writer Bill Kelly and public relations director Liz Bradley use noise-canceling headphones to help them filter out the noise at the marketing service agency.
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Moves to 'minimise annoyance', save eardrums Television adverts sometimes sound much louder than surrounding programme material because existing rules on sound levels are ambiguous. The rules should change to minimise annoyance to viewers, says an industry watchdog.â¦
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MP3 players should carry warnings that users risk damage to their hearing, deafness experts say.
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A leading conductor criticises airline security measures preventing musicians from taking instruments on to planes.
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LONGVIEW, Wash. - A music teacher is under investigation by school officials after a student stunned a concert audience with a profane tirade that she said was merely imitating the instructor's style.
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My wife is a professional percussionist. After three years of hearing her play marimba, djembe and conga in our living room -- and hearing me fumble around on our piano -- our neighbors wanted us to keep quiet.
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DÃSSELDORF, GERMANY - Careful -- some mobile phone tunes could be hazardous to your health.
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The BBC has learnt of serious incidents at a major Welsh hospital, with worries about patient safety.
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A former employee says he was harassed and fired after complaining about another employee's singing along to lyrics that included racial epithets.
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals was on high alert today over fears that a form of CJD suffered by one of its patients may have been transmitted to others via surgical instruments.
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At least one hospital has found a way to dial down the volume on the usual din of beeping monitors and blaring intercoms.
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Music, so the maxim goes, soothes the savage beast. Now one convenience store chain is putting the saying to the test by trying to ward off potential troublemakers at its shops with classical music.
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Mobile phone tune may play too loudly, Siemens says.
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A head teacher jailed for dangerous driving faces a hearing to decide if he is fit to continue in his job.