Mar132008
Don’t Lose The Music
Don’t Lose The Music highlights the risks to hearing from loud music in clubs, at gigs and from using personal audio equipment.
The campaign is aimed at 16-30 year olds and is paid for and run by RNID, the largest charity working to change the world for the UK’s 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people.
The campaign aims to stop young people from damaging their hearing through over exposure to loud music. We want to increase the number of people who are aware of the dangers and also increase the number of people taking action to prevent hearing damage.
- Social noise levels in the UK have tripled since the early 1980s. This means we are exposed to more noise in our daily lives than generations before us.
- Regular exposure to loud noise can lead to premature hearing loss. It can also cause ringing in the ears which can become permanent, a condition called tinnitus. Once hearing damage occurs there is no cure, yet noise induced hearing damage is preventable.
- RNID research found that huge numbers of young people are experiencing warning signs of potential hearing damage (ringing and dull hearing) yet they don’t know what they should do to protect their hearing.
- The Medical Research Council estimates four million UK adolescents are at risk of hearing damage from amplified music.
People, please please please look after your hearing. Seriously - can you imagine clubbing or DJing without your ears?
Click here to get some decent earplugs
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