Programme

At Listen Up you will have access to a wide variety of hearing and noise control expertise in one place. You can benefit from the unique opportunity to benefit from the latest information, advice and strategies. Explore the innovative services and solutions our exhibitors can provide to help you protect the workforce. Together we can make a real difference, and bring to an end the escalating worldwide epidemic of noise induced hearing loss.

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Programme

Who should attend Listen Up

Employers, particularly from high risk noise industries e.g. construction, defence, utilities, manufacturing, oil and gas or music and entertainment
Anyone actively involved in hearing conservation such as; health and safety professionals, occupational hygienists, occupational health nurses and physicians, audiologists, scientists, engineers and acousticians
Insurers and litigation experts
Educators

Just some of the speakers confirmed:

Chris Plack, Ellis Llwyd Jones Professor of Audiology, The University of Manchester

Presentation objectives
1. Understand that hearing damage due to noise exposure may go beyond what can be measured with the clinical audiogram
2. Understand how noise exposure can cause permanent damage to the auditory nervous system
3. Understand how future diagnostic techniques may provide an early warning of noise damage, even for people with clinically normal hearing

Rob Shepheard, Consultant Clinical Audiologist

The aim of my presentation is to Demonstrate the need for best practice auditory health conservation. How the traditional approach to health surveillance is unable to work and has been to developed to provide an effective method of preventing hearing loss and not just monitoring its gradual decline.

Dr Ian Wiggins, Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham

Presentation objectives:

· To emphasize the importance of taking a holistic view of lifetime sound exposure

· To discuss the consequences of hearing damage for music appreciation and enjoyment

· To introduce the WHO ‘Make Listening Safe’ initiative

· To raise awareness of recently launched global standards that aim to reduce the risk of hearing damage due to unsafe listening in recreational settings

Chris Plack, Ellis Llwyd Jones Professor of Audiology, The University of Manchester	Presentation objectives 1. Understand that hearing damage due to noise exposure may go beyond what can be measured with the clinical audiogram 2. Understand how noise exposure can cause permanent damage to the auditory nervous system 3. Understand how future diagnostic techniques may provide an early warning of noise damage, even for people with clinically normal hearing
Rob Shepheard, Consultant Clinical Audiologist	The aim of my presentation is to Demonstrate the need for best practice auditory health conservation. How the traditional approach to health surveillance is unable to work and has been to developed to provide an effective method of preventing hearing loss and not just monitoring its gradual decline.
Dr Ian Wiggins, Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham	Presentation objectives: · To emphasize the importance of taking a holistic view of lifetime sound exposure · To discuss the consequences of hearing damage for music appreciation and enjoyment · To introduce the WHO ‘Make Listening Safe’ initiative · To raise awareness of recently launched global standards that aim to reduce the risk of hearing damage due to unsafe listening in recreational settings