No issues for 10 years. My view is that surely you should have better things to spend your time worrying about in a warehouse than how loud a radio is. Senisble safety.... ;)

Sensible, If you are worried about the noise from the source I'd suggest getting other radios for around the warehouse so that music can still be enjoyed but source volume lowered. If you have no accidents or incidents stemming from the noise levels you'll have a hard time justifying your decision to remove the radio to staff. You may even find staff become defiant and wear headphones to listen to music which could be counter productive to what you're trying to achieve.

Hardly sensible safety, if you have had no accidents or incidents in over 10 years then you decide to take the radio away because you think it is too loud. Why not just turn it down a bit. Maybe it's time for a name change!

some good replies as usual especially from RAY and also note environmental noise contamination and PAT testing etc. come at this from the H&S area e.g.noise management etc. alone & be secure in your answer and if somebody wants to remove / change the radio situation give it to management to manage and not the H&S bod

Invictus, name change suggestion has been taken onboard. It's not because I think it's too loud, I know it's too loud. I fully expect that it would be in the 80's+ db in the immediate area before people, machinery and others are included. I am not wanting to remove it because I 'want' to, it's because I forsee it playing a part in a future accident. Turning it down works but it is a very large building and needless to say it will get whacked up to max the first opportunity. Why have horns on MHE if they cannot be heard over music. I have only been in the business 5 months, the last 10 years of no accidents relating to loud noise in the warehouse look good on paper but my feelers tell me reporting and contributory factors may be slightly off for the last 10 years. From examining and watching warehouse operations and viewing footage of near misses in this same warehouse, the loud noise certainly does make me think of it as an issue. My worry would be that a colleague gets struck or similar by a MHE and then the noise becomes an issue. RayRapp, I have asked and been told a licence is in place. Thanks for that. Alas it might be a case of the benefits of the radio to the morale of the team outweighs the risk.

If the music is to loud make them wear ear defenders. Problem solved.

OK poor wording :- They were taken to court, the action against the Kwik-Fit Group was brought by the Performing Rights Society. Chris

Yes when I looked, Kwik fit tried to get it dismissed and the judge said No. What happened next seems vague, all I could find was a blog saying it had happened and it was £250,000. Things take so long in court sometimes that the sensational news headline is one year and the conclusion a few years later and no one cares (or at least not the news people). Perhaps they came to some sort of arrangement.

Research by BST indicates that only 20% of minor injury accidents (and by inference a not dissimilar proportion of near misses) are precursors of a Serious Injury or Fatality (SIF). BP were celebrating brilliant personal injury statistics immediately before Texas City and then again before Deepwater Horizon. In the OP's question 10 years without an accident, and quite probably an absence of records of near misses is not much evidence that a SIF is not going to happen tomorrow, next week or next year. I've investigated work-related transport fatalities and if you can't hear the horn over the radio I'd personally want this fixed. Music OK, but turn the volume down. If this means multiple localised speakers, so be it. Compared with the cost of a SIF, peanuts.

And if the employee has no/limited hearing ability it really doesn't matter how loud the radio is - they still wouldn't hear a horn or reversing bleeper.

Agree with comments #7 and #9. Pretty sure it also applies to business that play music when you are on hold. If no accidents in 10 years, IMHO I would set the ground rules with the team, if volume is controlled by twist knob, but a mark on it......... "Guys if it goes past this mark again (or numeric 10 or do) it will be removed"! MAT