Nightclub Workers Face Aural Health Crisis

[george]

Nightclub workers face aural health crisis

BANGKOK: -- Over 70 percent of Thailand's nightclub workers have deteriorated aural nerves and face deafness from working in environments where legal decibel levels are regularly exceeded, according to the Director of the Department of Disease Control's Bureau of Occupational and Environmental Diseases, Kamjad Ramakul.

Mr. Kamjad said that random tests on nightclub workers conducted by officials from the Department of Disease Control had found that over 70 percent had aural nerve problems, and that 30 percent had severe problems.

Warning that nightclub workers were at high risk of deafness if they continued to work in such environments, he said that the decibel level in most nightclubs was found to exceed 120, well over the legal limit of 90.

"Some nightclub owners prepare earplugs for their workers to prevent aural health problems, but when customers make orders, the workers can't hear.

Some complain that the earplugs are annoying and refuse to wear them, and in some cases, the owners aren't interested in providing them for their workers", Dr. Kamjad revealed.

The Department of Disease Control is organising a seminar on occupational health today, which was opened by Deputy Public Health Minister Anutin Chanvirakul.

--TNA 2005-06-27

[sabaijai]

Other places (all over Thailand as well as BKK) where safe noise levels are regularly exceeded include shopping centers, with huge sound systems installed on the ground floor to promote sales, etc; pickup trucks with loudspeakers mounted on them promoting the same; sounds systems at almost every temple fair; outdoor concerts in general.

[Joey Boy]

Other places (all over Thailand as well as BKK) where safe noise levels are regularly exceeded include shopping centers, with huge sound systems installed on the ground floor to promote sales, etc; pickup trucks with loudspeakers mounted on them promoting the same; sounds systems at almost every temple fair; outdoor concerts in general.

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Time for a crackdown then

[mnoorsapl]

BKK HUB of air pollution, noise pollution and etc.. etc...

[RDN]

Nightclub workers face aural health crisis  ...

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...not to mention oral health crisis, too.

[carlthailand]

Same problem in overseas for this industry.

My staff in Adelaide wore earplugs. Could still hear people fine.

It ultimately i the responsibility of the owners to ensure staff OHS.

Also the staff need to be aware of the long term effects and be willing to do something abt it.

Cc

[Insight]

Oh fck me, here we fckin' go a-fckin-gain...

Other places (all over Thailand as well as BKK) where safe noise levels are regularly exceeded include shopping centers, with huge sound systems installed on the ground floor to promote sales, etc; pickup trucks with loudspeakers mounted on them promoting the same; sounds systems at almost every temple fair; outdoor concerts in general.

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Time for a crackdown then

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Exactly.

[Sphere]

Warning that nightclub workers were at high risk of deafness if they continued to work in such environments, he said that the decibel level in most nightclubs was found to exceed 120, well over the legal limit of 90.

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That warning is going to fall on deaf ears...

[Merlin]

Nightclub workers face aural health crisis 

[...snip] he said that the decibel level in most nightclubs was found to exceed 120, well over the legal limit of 90.

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oh strewth here we go again...

120dB??? where? - within 200mm of the speaker? What about in the middle of the room, or at the back - or at the bar?

120dB quoted like that is completely meaningless. Peak or average? A weighted or C weighted?

It's like saying your car gets 90 miles per gallon - yeh sure if it's all downhill, with a tailwind.

[penzman]

Nightclub workers face aural health crisis 

"Some nightclub owners prepare earplugs for their workers to prevent aural health problems, but when customers make orders, the workers can't hear. 

--TNA 2005-06-27

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I ordered rum & coke. She came back with gum and rope.