H.870 "Guidelines for safe listening devices/systems" (formerly F.SLD) is an

ITU-T The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It is responsible for coordinating standards for telecommunications and Information Comm ...

Recommendation, developed in collaboration with the

World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of ...

. It specifies standards for safe listening to prevent

hearing loss Hearing loss is a partial or total inability to hear. Hearing loss may be present at birth or acquired at any time afterwards. Hearing loss may occur in one or both ears. In children, hearing problems can affect the ability to acquire spoken ...

and was first approved in 2018. In March 2022, version 2 was approved and published. __TOC__

Apps

In order to make the Guidelines available as widely as possible, the WHO release
Android
an
iOS
apps.

Toolkit

In order to ensure widespread implementation of this standard, WHO, ITU-T and

ITU-D The ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) is one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); it is responsible for creating policies, regulation and providing training programs and financi ...

’s Digital Inclusion Programme developed
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 The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Unio ...

and the

Digital health Digital health is a discipline that includes digital care programs, technologies with health, healthcare, living, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and to make medicine more personalized and precise. It uses informat ...

, which is undertaken primarily through

ITU-T Study Group 16 The ITU-T Study Group 16 (SG16) is a statutory group of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) concerned with multimedia coding, systems and applications, such as video coding standards. It is responsible for standardization of ...

and the

ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health The ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (AI for Health) is an inter-agency collaboration between the World Health Organization and the ITU, which created a benchmarking framework to assess the accuracy of AI in health. Th ...

(FG-AI4H).

References

{{reflist ITU-T recommendations ITU-T H Series Recommendations