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Radio's and MP3 players at work?

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  • ohreally
    ohreally Posts: 7,525 Forumite
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    Gingernutty wrote: »
    You're in a production line in a busy factory and anything which interferes with your ability to hear alarms/cries for help and so on should be banned.

    Using your analogy, how would a hearing impaired individual be accomodated?
    Don’t be a can’t, be a can.
  • DevCoder
    DevCoder Posts: 3,362 Forumite
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    ohreally wrote: »
    Using your analogy, how would a hearing impaired individual be accomodated?

    By either an induction loop or a risk assessment (most probably the latter)
  • denla
    denla Posts: 417 Forumite
    ohreally wrote: »
    Using your analogy, how would a hearing impaired individual be accomodated?

    Why do you think employers find all sorts of excuses to not employer people with disability?
  • ohreally
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    krisdorey wrote: »
    By either an induction loop or a risk assessment (most probably the latter)

    I was getting at visual alarms such as strobes.
    Don’t be a can’t, be a can.
  • Gingernutty
    Gingernutty Posts: 3,769 Forumite
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    ohreally wrote: »
    Using your analogy, how would a hearing impaired individual be accomodated?

    This isn't a disability situation, though is it? This is a "why can't we wear headphones that play music" situation.

    If the OP had been deaf and refused a job because they refused to accommodate him then it would be an issue - but it's not.
    :huh: Don't know what I'm doing, but doing it anyway... :huh:
  • DevCoder
    DevCoder Posts: 3,362 Forumite
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    ohreally wrote: »
    I was getting at visual alarms such as strobes.

    Then how do you cater for blind or epileptic people ;)

    Its all about risk assessments these days
  • StephenM_2
    StephenM_2 Posts: 373 Forumite
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    I'm an engineer working in a large open plan office. I reckon the majority of people there use headphones. No ones ever tried to ban it.
  • TrickyWicky
    TrickyWicky Posts: 4,025 Forumite
    krisdorey wrote: »
    By either an induction loop or a risk assessment (most probably the latter)

    And there is the winner. Induction loops are easy to get on ebay along with a receiver that fits in the ear. Barely visible.

    I think you can guess what it could be used for without anyone noticing :D
  • dacouch
    dacouch Posts: 21,636 Forumite
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    Could you get the colleague who was caught singing to entertain you with some more singing. Maybe he can do requests
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