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Make Listening Safe
Co-chairs
Lidia Best, Katya Freire
Goal
To realize the world where people of all ages can enjoy recreational music without risk to their hearing.
Objectives
- Increase awareness on the importance of safe listening and change.
- Promote adoption and implementation of the WHO/ITU global standard for safe listening devices.
- Promote the importance of implementing safe listening regulations with governments and policy-makers.
- Inform sound engineers, event organizers, musicians, music industry, recording companies and others about the WHO/ITU global standards and guidelines for safe listening.
KPIs 2024-2025
- At least 2 headphone manufacturers to adopt the safe listening standard.
- At least 1 country to adopt Make Listening Safe recommendations.
- At least 1 school or country to implement Make Listening Safe as part of an educational curriculum.
- Create the website for Make Listening Safe.
- Create 4 educational videos in English by Andreas Thulin.
- Increase social media numbers by 50%.
- Create a youth group to produce videos for TikTok and X accounts.
- Increase Make Listening Safe membership by 30% by December 2025.
- Create 2 newsletters in 2024 and 4 by the end of 2025.
Achievements
- The Safe Listening LinkedIn group has reached 2000 members.
- Portuguese and English Make Listening Safe social channels have been created.
- The Safe Listening Wikipedia page has received more than 40,000 views across multiple languages.
- Make Listening Safe has 139 members, including 108 WHF members.
- Apple, Huawei, Sony and Google have implemented WHO/ITU safe listening standards.
- Safe listening workshops and sessions have been organized at major audiology, ENT, and sound engineering conferences.