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If they are your apprentices, as in you are their manager/supervisor, you have a legal obligation to enforce the wearing of ear defenders once noise reaches 85dbA (you have to provide it at 80dbA but not enforce it) if you can't make other changes to reduce the levels to below that. So yes, you...

I was meaning for your apprentices now. Don't want you leaving yourself open for trouble if you don't enforce the wearing of ear defenders.

You do realise hearing protection is mandatory if the time-weighted average noise exposure is 85dbA or above? Angle grinders will almost certainly be above that for the user.

Depression is common among tinnitus sufferers, and suicide not uncommon, especially when sleep deprivation is chronic. It really is one of those things that you can't imagine how bad it can be until you suffer from it, a bit like M.E. (I know this because my wife has M.E.).

True that. What I have found that helps is meditation and generally trying to keep healthy with diet and exercise. If you can keep your stress levels and blood pressure down that does seem to lower the perceived audible volume. I very rarely drink alcohol now either, and if I do just a pint or...

I have been suffering with tinnitus for 20 odd years from playing in loud guitar bands, clubbing and gig-going. It has got worse over the last few years and I now have a permanent high pitch noise to left side and low hum to the right. Noticeable above low background noise now. I have managed to...