CASE STUDY 3

Comment and Questions

BL: 10 Aug 2003: PLH = 17,7 PBI = 0,9

This is a baseline audiogram of an employee performed on 10 August 2003. It is clearly noise-induced hearing loss and should be reported to the Inspectorate of Labour. But it is not (unfortunately) compensatable, because it should still be interpreted in terms of Circular Instruction 168 (PBI = 0,9 - only compensatable if >1,7)