by mercurylegal | Jan 5, 2016 | Industrial Disease, Tinnitus, Tinnitus Sounds, Tinnitus Statistics, Videos on Tinnitus
What it is? Tinnitus is the term used for hearing sounds that come from within your body, rather from the outside world. It is often described as a ‘ringing in the ears’ but it can manifest itself in different noises such as buzzing, humming, grinding, hissing and...
by mercurylegal | Dec 22, 2015 | Factsheets & Guides, Industrial Disease, Tinnitus, Tinnitus Sounds, Tinnitus Statistics
Industrial Deafness is also known as Occupational Deafness or Noise Induced Hearing Loss. It is a condition that results in the loss of hearing – in many cases over a long period of time – which occurs as a consequence of a person’s working environment. There is a...
by Gavin Moat | Feb 5, 2015 | Industrial Disease, Tinnitus, Tinnitus Sounds, Tinnitus Statistics
YouTube has pledged to improve its automatic subtitling for videos as soon as possible after telling the BBC the service was nowhere near good enough. It brought the facility in following a well-publicised campaign by hard-of-hearing vlogger Rikki Poynter to provide...
by Gavin Moat | Jan 28, 2015 | Industrial Disease, Tinnitus, Tinnitus Sounds
A team of researchers from Colorado State University are attempting to develop a device which will enable deaf people to ‘hear’ merely by touching their tongue against a portable Bluetooth-enabled gadget. After a year of testing prototypes, the researchers have now...
by mercurylegal | May 21, 2014 | Industrial Disease
Personal injury firm Clear Law have been announced as official sponsors of 2014’s Deaf Awareness Week, running from 19th-25th May. This year the theme of the campaign, run by UK Council on Deafness (UKCoD), is ‘Equality in Communication for all’. Information on...
by mercurylegal | Feb 11, 2014 | Industrial Disease
A former rail worker who suffers from hearing loss as a result of repeated exposure to excessive workplace noise over a period of years has won £8,500 in an out-of-court settlement. The man began working for British Rail, at its Swindon works, in 1956 and was with the...
