occupational hearing loss | professional hearing loss

hearing loss | hearing impairment

percentage of deafness | percentage of hearing impairment | percentage of hearing loss

Conductive deafness

Acoustic trauma Noise-induced hearing loss

risk of hearing impairment for conversational speech

– (PT) Noise at work can cause effects such as fatigue, communication difficulties and total hearing loss.

placing more emphasis on the prevention of occupational illnesses, especially those which continue to affect a large number of European workers, such as those caused by the use of dangerous substances such as asbestos, hearing loss and musculo-skeletal disorders;

15. Underlines Parliament's commitment to establish an independent internal audit service in accordance with Council Regulation (EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 762/2001 amending Article 24 of the Financial Regulation ; notes the Bureau decision of 28 November 2001 to set up such a service; stresses that the service must be independent with the possibility of communicating directly to the President of Parliament when issues of gravity come to the attention of the internal auditor; urges the Bureau to approve the necessary changes to its Internal Financial Rules as a matter of priority; considers that the internal auditor must be a highly qualified and experien ...[+++]ced audit professional who is able to perform his duties in a fully independent manner and in accordance with the relevant international standards; believes that the recent experiences of certain banks and large conglomerates, which suffered catastrophic losses due to weak internal controls show that the weakening of control mechanisms would be detrimental to the sound management of European taxpayer's money; insists that the independence of controllers and of the control function be safeguarded from being subordinated to expenditure managers;

15. Underlines Parliament's commitment to establish an independent internal audit service in accordance with Council Regulation (EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 762/2001 amending Article 24 of the Financial Regulation ; notes the Bureau decision of 28 November 2001 to set up such a service; stresses that the service must be independent with the possibility of communicating directly to the President of Parliament when issues of gravity come to the attention of the internal auditor; urges the Bureau to approve the necessary changes to its Internal Financial Rules as a matter of priority; considers that the internal auditor must be a highly qualified and experien ...[+++]ced audit professional who is able to perform his duties in a fully independent manner and in accordance with the relevant international standards; believes that the recent experiences of certain banks and large conglomerates, which suffered catastrophic losses due to weak internal controls show that the weakening of control mechanisms would be detrimental to the sound management of European taxpayer's money; insists that the independence of controllers and of the control function be safeguarded from being subordinated to expenditure managers;