Guidelines for safe listening devices/systems | |
Status | In force |
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Year started | 2018 |
Latest version | 1.1 9 March 2019 |
Organization | ITU-T |
Committee | ITU-T Study Group 16 (Secretary: Simao Campos) |
Related standards | V.18, H.810 |
Domain | Sound, Hearing loss |
License | Freely available |
Website | https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.870 |
H.870 "Guidelines for safe listening devices/systems" (formerly F.SLD) is an ITU-T Recommendation, developed in collaboration with the World Health Organization. It specifies standards for safe listening to prevent hearing loss and was first approved in 2018. In March 2022, version 2 was approved and published.
Apps
In order to make the Guidelines available as widely as possible, the WHO released Android and iOS apps.
Toolkit
In order to ensure widespread implementation of this standard, WHO, ITU-T and ITU-D’s Digital Inclusion Programme developed a Toolkit for Safe Listening Devices and Systems.
Inter-Agency Collaboration on Digital Health
H.870 and the work on safe listening is part of the Inter-Agency Collaboration between the ITU and the World Health Organization on Digital health, which is undertaken primarily through ITU-T Study Group 16 and the ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H).
References
- ITU (2018-09-22). "Listen responsibly: New ITU standard to prevent audio devices from causing hearing loss". ITU News. Archived from the original on 2021-06-16. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
- "H.870: Guidelines for safe listening devices/systems". www.itu.int. Archived from the original on 2019-11-06. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
- "WHO | Make Listening Safe: A WHO initiative to promote safe listening practices". WHO. Archived from the original on 2019-10-24. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- "UN guidelines unveiled to prevent rising hearing loss among young smartphone listeners". UN News. 2019-02-12. Archived from the original on 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
- H.870(v2): Guidelines for safe listening devices/systems
- "hearWHO". www.who.int. Archived from the original on 2020-03-10. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
- "WHO | WHO launches the hearWHO app for mobile devices to help detect hearing loss". WHO. Archived from the original on 2019-09-21. Retrieved 2020-03-10.