With today’s unprecedented global pandemic and the population being encouraged to wear mouth coverings there has been an increasing awareness of lipreading and the access people need to it. Lipreading is a skill that can be learned and indeed taught but did you know...

Do you find the cinema intolerably loud? Stick fingers in your ears when a train screeches to a stop? Enraged when a toddler hammers the hardwood floors with a toy? Does being at a loud party or restaurant stress you out? Do you find sweet relief in wearing earplugs...

How do the Regulations apply and how can we measure noise exposure levels? It may not be obvious to many, but employees who regularly use headsets and earphones in workplace environments like command and control rooms, call centres, trading floors, television...

If you have to raise your voice to communicate face-to-face, in a socially-distanced workplace setting, then you probably have a noise problem. Pass Go, collect £200 and head straight to the hierarchy of controls (see Figure 1). Figure 1 Source: NIOSH You may want to...

In the days of COVID-19 and what we all like to call the new normal, we easily forget that noise has become an everyday contributing factor to several challenges affecting the quality of life. Such challenges include communication loss, where speech intelligibility is...