Fact sheet: Protection for your ears
Wearing protective equipment can help to prevent damage to one of your most important senses.
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Fact sheet: Affect on hearing when driving a heavy vehicle
Mild to moderate hearing loss may not affect a person’s ability to drive safely. People who have a hearing loss often compensate by being more cautious and more attentive to visual cues. Those with hearing aids should wear them when driving.
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Hearing loss, earplug use and attitudes to hearing protection amongst non-orchestral ensemble musicians
This study surveys non-orchestral musicians playing in pipe, jazz, concert, wind, or brass bands regarding their perceived risk of music-induced hearing damage, rates of self-reported hearing loss, and use of earplugs and acoustic screens while playing in an ensemble.
What consumers really think about Disability Employment Services
The voice of consumers with disability has, up until this point, largely been absent in the development of employment policy designed to maximise economic participation – our participation. It is clear from the findings of this national collated report that this can no longer continue if Australia is serious about closing the 30 percentage point workforce participation rate gap1 which exists between people with disability and those without.
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Recent advances in the understanding of Meniere’s disease and tinnitus
Last year I attended the 200th anniversary of the birth of Prosper Menière. He died of pneumonia in 1862; the year after his article describing Meniere’s disease was published.
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Labour force activities, barriers and enablers for people with a hearing loss
People who want to participate in the labour force and have a hearing loss face challenges that are unfamiliar to most of their hearing peers: for some, the barriers become evident start at or before the process of searching for work and, for many, they become more acute during the selection process or at work.
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