Figures published by the pre-school teacher’s union and work safety authorities indicate that stress, headaches, tinnitus, learning difficulties and at worst, impaired hearing can affect children in noisy kindergartens, according to daily newspaper Dagbladet.
The figures are even worse for children in school.
The teacher's union Utdanningsforbundet, and the national association for the hard of hearing (HLF) and starting a nationwide campaign to reduce noise in children's day care institutions.
According to a Labour Inspection Authority report from 2005, 75 percent of kindergarten employees are exposed to harmful levels of noise at work.
