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Have you seen our new Use Your Mouth video series?
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Use Your Mouth features a comic duo of commentators in velour sport jackets who pop up in various workplaces to give a running commentary on using your mouth in the workplace.
Take a few minutes to check out Pat and Joe in our full video series and you’ll notice that five of the eight workplace scenarios are about a work-related health risk: bullying, fatigue, hazardous substances, manual handling and noise.
It’s really important that the “health” in health and safety gets the prominence it needs for businesses and workers to focus on health risk management as much as they do on safety risk management.
Check out the noise video 'One Mouth Wonder' in the video below.
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Also in this issue
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- Fatigue messages getting out to businesses and workers
- Listen out for noise
- Noise in the news
- Sun exposure infographic for workers
- Heat at work
- Asbestos – new regime and new quick guides
- Workplace exposure standards consultation
- Managing back pain at work
- Young people the focus for World Safety and Health at Work Day.
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Noise in the news
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Noise-related hearing loss is a workplace risk that needs to be managed. Here is a thought-provoking story from Radio New Zealand about how noise can cause problems for our health and wellbeing. It has wide-reaching implications on our lives.
For more information on managing the health risk of noise in the workplace visit our website.
The impact of noise at work was the focus of recent legal action in the UK. A viola player claimed his hearing was irreparably damaged by the Royal Opera House’s horn section during a thunderous rendition of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. The musician’s claim for lost earnings was successful and the first of its kind. His employer was found to be in breach of a number of workplace noise control regulations. Check out the full news story.
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Consultation on more workplace exposure standards underway
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We are inviting feedback on proposed changes to workplace exposure standards for beryllium, cobalt, chromium (VI), manganese, nickel, perchloroethylene, Portland cement, synthetic mineral (vitreous) fibres, sulphuric acid, total welding fumes by 29 June.
You can find the relevant documents and submission form on our website.
Exposure monitoring involves measuring and evaluating workers’ exposure to a health hazard. It includes monitoring the conditions at the workplace, as well as biological monitoring of people at the workplace.
Exposure monitoring can be used to find out if workers are potentially being exposed to a hazard at harmful levels, or to detect whether the measures in place to control exposure to that hazard are working.
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