Observing World Hearing Day 2022: To hear for life, listen with care.

It’s World Hearing Day and this year’s theme from the World Health Organization highlights the significance of safe listening in order to protect healthy hearing as you age. A World report on hearing was introduced by the WHO in 2021. It emphasized the growing number of individuals who live with and are at risk of hearing loss. It focused on controlling noise levels as one of the seven main H.E.A.R.I.N.G. interventions and underscored the importance of alleviating loud sound exposure.

This year’s theme “To hear for life, listen with care” will concentrate on preventative measures for hearing loss via safe listening, along with the following messages:  
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• Good hearing throughout the course of life is possible with ear and hearing care.
• Most common causes of hearing loss are preventable, including hearing loss that is caused by loud noise exposure.
• Safe listening levels can lower the risks of hearing loss that is linked to recreational noise exposure.
• WHO encourages governments, industry partners, and the general population to raise awareness and carry out evidence-based standards that advocate safe listening.

Target groups: 

• Decision-makers
• Venue supervisors, and proprietors of entertainment venues
• The general population, particularly young adults

What will be launched on World Hearing Day?

• A global standard for safe listening entertainment venues
• mSafeListening handbook
• A journalist’s media toolkit

If you or a loved one are experiencing hearing loss and/or tinnitus, please contact us at Pure Sound Hearing for a complimentary hearing test and consultation. 

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