NOISE PROTECTION
June 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLMARITIME workers are to be covered by EU health and safety legislation on noise, after the Council of Ministers (employment and social policy) struck a compromise deal on a new 'health and safety: physical agents (noise)' directive. They had been excluded from an earlier 1986 directive, which the EU is currently updating. Following pressure from the shipping industry, there will be an additional five years transition period for seafarers before the law comes into force, over and above the three years being proposed for other sectors. The proposed ...
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