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30/03/06 - TELSTRA: COMCARE TO INVESTIGATE ACOUSTIC SHOCK INCIDENT AT RIVER QUAYS
On Thursday 23 March 2006 approximately fifteen workers at Telstra’s River Quays call centre were injured by an acoustic shock incident allegedly caused by power surges.
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10/02/06 - ERGONOMICS TODAY™ : ERGONOMICS FOR OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENISTS ON MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS
Several sources link headsets worn by music lovers and by call center personnel to hearing loss.
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02/06 - BT UNION HEALTH & SAFETY: BT BLOCKED ATTENDANCE AT ACOUSTIC SAFETY CONFERENCE
BT staff who had registered to attend the November 2005 Acoustic Safety Programme's conference, were forced to cancel their attendance according to reports in industry magazine CCF (Call Centre Forum).
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07/11/05 - HEALTH AND SAFETY MINISTER CALLS FOR PROTECTION OF CALL CENTRE WORKERS
Opening the UK’s first Acoustic Safety Conference at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath stressed the importance of controlling noise at work and protecting the hearing of Britain’s one million call centre workers.
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04/11/05 - MAJOR ACOUSTIC SHOCK INCIDENT HIGHLIGHTS DANGERS IN RUN UP TO CONFERENCE
The CWU have advised that staff at a BT call centre in Aberdeen suffered multiple acoustic shocks over a two day period on October 20 and 21 from white noise bursts transmitted through their headsets.
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24/10/05 - HEALTH AND SAFETY MINISTER TO SPEAK AT ACOUSTIC SAFETY CONFERENCE
Health and Safety Minister to speak
The media are invited to a briefing at the start of the Acoustic Safety Programme Conference on Monday, November 7, at the National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 0LW.
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21/10/05 - HEALTH AND SAFETY MINISTER TO SPEAK AT ACOUSTIC SAFETY CONFERENCE
Lord Hunt, Minister for health and safety, is to be the keynote speaker at the Acoustic Safety Programme Conference on Monday, November 7, at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, London.
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13/10/05 - CONFERENCE TO RAISE THE VOLUME ON THE DANGERS OF ACOUSTIC SHOCK IN THE WORKPLACE
A major conference will bring together experts in the field of acoustic safety at work from the scientific, medical, and legal communities to discuss the controversial subject of acoustic shock.
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25/08/05 - Conference to be launched in November with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - Watch this space for updates in due course.
TO FOLLOW THE ‘EUROPEAN SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK WEEK 2005’ which this year focuses on 'NOISE' between 23rd and 30th October 2005.
The Acoustic Safety Programme launch Conference and Workshop will be held in partnership with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in November following the European Safety and Health at Work Week at the end of October 2005.
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20/07/05 - BBC Report
BBC report on growing cases of Acoustic Shock in Call Centres.
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10/06/05 - Conference re-scheduled from 27th June to October
CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE – LINK WITH THE ‘EUROPEAN SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK WEEK 2005’ in October at the TUC Congress Centre
The Acoustic Safety Programme launch Conference and Workshop will be held at the TUC Congress Centre in October 2005.
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05/05/05 - HUGH ROBERTSON TO DELIVER KEYNOTE SPEECH
The Acoustic Safety Porgramme is proud and pleased to announce that Mr Hugh Robertson of the Heath & Safety Commission will deliver a keynote speech on 27th June 2005 at the launch event in London.
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02/05/05 - C3 SUPPORT THE ACOUSTIC SAFETY PROGRAMME
The UK's Acoustic Safety Programme are delighted to announce that Clement Clarke Communications have joined the team of prestigious and market driving UK headset manufacturers supporting the worlds first public/private initiative delivering awareness, knowledge, training and solutions to address the problem of acoustic shock and noise interference in the worklplace.
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06/04/05 - LISTENING FOR THE PROBLEM
Marcus R Quilter of the Call Centre Management Association, argues that Acoustic Shock contributes to a UK £2.5bn annual loss for call centres …
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30/03/05 - AUSTRALIA ALSO TACKLES ACOUSTIC SHOCK!
ACIF's guideline is clear evidence that the UK is not alone in its bid to try and eradicate Acoustic Shock and Noise Interference at work. Not only does this professional body
acknowledge the injury and damage caused to telephony operatives, but also provides a definition of Acoustic Shock, Acoustic Shock protective devices and also make the distinction between Acoustic Shock and Acoustic Trauma.
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17/03/05 - Acoustic Shock contributes to a UK £2.5 Billion annual loss!
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15/01/05 - Tecteon Plc adds its innovation and uniqueness to the Acoustic Safety Team
The Acoustic Safety Programme welcomes its latest supporting partner Tecteon Plc.
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