LightSoundJournal.com: Hearing health has long been a recognized challenge in live sound across engineers, performers, venue staff, and audiences. While efforts once centered on individual responsibility, the conversation is shifting toward shared standards, education, and industry-wide accountability.
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I’m glad that industry-wide responsibility is shifting from individuals to be shared by all industry members. It is absolutely a systems-level initiative, as it should be. The World Health Organization’s Make Listening Safe initiative aims to create evidence-based listening standards, to educate people on those standards, and to invest in research around safer listening. I’m glad that Meyer Sound, obviously a big player on the sound stage, is jumping on the bandwagon. The Healthy Ears, Limited Annoyance international program, as well as the Center for Early Intervention on Deafness are both great initiatives, and their partnerships spell out a step in the right direction for Meyer Sound. The article’s closing statement - that normalization is what makes real change possible - is true, and I believe that the larger organizations in the world of sound taking responsibility for their listener’s auditory health is arguably more crucial. Not just Meyer Sound, but all organizations involved in live performance sound.
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