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Trouble with Hearing Safety Compliance?

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Keeping up with safety measures and ensuring your employees comply can be tricky. You need to make sure you have plenty of safety products such as eye protection, first aid kits and work earplugs. You also have to figure out how you can encourage your employees to comply and have a system in place to check. Without these ingredients to a successful safety program, you may find yourself in a bad spot if an employee is injured or an inspector should happen to stop by.

One key to a successful safety program is to appoint one or two employees to manage the system. Rather than having safety products a part of normal purchasing, have an employee take regular inventory on safety products and submit their order through purchasing in plenty of time to ensure supply doesn’t run low. Certain items such as foam earplugs can be kept in large bulk amounts. Continue reading →

What Else Does Noise Affect?

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American speaker manufacturer, Bose Corporation, outlined a number of factors affected by noisy environments other than potential hearing loss or damage. We are in noisy environments constantly, whether you’re waiting for the tube on the platform or trying to think clearly in the office amidst other conversations and the rustling of papers. Though hearing loss may not occur from noisy offices, it may be affecting quite a few other things. Let’s see what Bose found out. Continue reading →

What Makes These Earplugs So Popular?

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There are literally hundreds of choices when it comes to earplugs, but some earplugs seem to reign supreme: Alpine MusicSafe Pro, Macks Ultra SafeSound, Macks Pillow Soft Kids, Moldex Spark Plugs, Moldex Mellows, and Heartech Silent Ear. I thought I’d look these customer favourites over and determine why they are so popular!

Musician earplugs are highly popular these days with all the attention given to hearing damage that avid music lovers, rock stars and club employees were encountering without proper hearing protection. Alpine MusicSafe Pro earplugs are affordable music earplugs that allow you to choose the proper level of protection with three different attenuating filters: white for low level pub music, silver for music venues and gold for D.J.’s and others who are exposed to very loud music. I give these a top rating because they offer professional quality in protection, but at affordable rates for those of us who are not highly popular D.J.’s or rock stars! Continue reading →

When Do You Need Earplugs to Protect Your Hearing?

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Health concerns are abundant and the media tends to inundate us with advice on health and wellness such as weight loss, nutrition and exercise. One area that they seem to neglect is how to protect our hearing. Our ears are abused on a daily basis and most of us experience some amount of hearing loss, even as early as our teens and twenties. Children are very susceptible to hearing loss.

When do you need to protect your ears with earplugs?  Noise at 85 decibels or higher can cause hearing damage, sometimes permanently. What sounds are you exposed to on a regular basis and for how long?

If you love music, chances are you go dancing or to concerts. Blaring music at either a club or a concert arena (especially if you get the good seats!) can cause hearing damage in less than 30 seconds at 115 decibels. You can purchase inexpensive earplugs or invest in custom earplugs if you are a professional or an avid concert/club attendee. Only the damaging sounds are filtered, so your hearing is protected, but the music still sounds fantastic!

You can damage your hearing in as little as 15 minutes after continuous exposure to 100 decibels. Your iPod set at volume level 5 can produce 100 decibels. If you listen to your tunes regularly, you might consider purchasing high-end earphones that protect your hearing while accentuating the music to recording studio quality.

How about the workplace? Do you work in a factory? How about an office? Though we tend to think of noisy machinery as being the only need for earplugs, even an office setting can produce moderate hearing damage, or at the very least, distraction from your work.

In an industrial setting, noise levels can reach more than 100 decibels. Employers are to provide earplugs for employees and make sure that they are compliant.

Even the low hum of busy city traffic that you might hear out your office or bedroom window can cause hearing damage when you are exposed to it for 8 hours a day. Background noises in an office can be distracting. For better concentration and a more peaceful workday, you can purchase inexpensive earplugs that are soft, safe and comfortable.

Think about all the things you do at home, work or at play that are noisy. Are they damaging? Remember that hearing damage can occur at 85 decibels.

Lawn mower = 95 decibels
Leaf blower = 115 decibels
Cinema = 94 decibels
Children’s Toys = (up to) 150 decibels (Check out these tot-sized ear muffs in pink or green)
Sporting event = 127 decibels
Health club = 120 decibels (And you thought only your wicked personal trainer was dangerous!)

Cheers!

Meghan