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Talk to anyone in the industrial healthcare sector and it will become immediately clear that hearing loss in mine operators is one of the most common occupational health and safety challenges confronting every mine site across the country. The common practices of blasting and crushing and the use of heavy machinery mean that dangerous noise generation is an unavoidable by-product of mining and mineral processing. According to a report from Safe Work Australia, for the years 2010-2011 in mining, a full quarter of workers’ compensation claims were related to deafness and the terrible effects that hearing loss has on the quality of life for miners. Settling these claims presents an expensive proposition for mining companies. Reducing the prevalence of this…