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Working with ear plugs

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It is a becoming a vital requirement to be wearing ear plugs in the workplace, especially in the industrial work force, but is becoming increasingly more important in bars and clubs as music is getting louder. When working and being constantly surrounded by heavy machinery or loud music your hearing can become seriously damaged. What is even more concerning is the damage that low level sounds create. Ear plugs are a vital part of the work uniform especially when it comes to health and safety and what needs to be remembered is that size does matter. To get the most of our your work ear plugs the fit is crucial, mouldable or pre-moulded earplugs are the best as they are tailored to the size and shape of your ear canal, generating the best protection to damaging sounds.

Working with music

If you are in a band or work alongside a band, such as a technician, it is advisable to have musician ear plugs, especially if you undergo long rehearsals on a daily basis. Band practises can reach approximately 110 – 120 decibels, 30 – 40 decibels higher than normal.

Using earplugs in a bar or club has brilliant effects, it dilutes the music in the background protecting your hearing, and allows bar tenders to hear drinks orders more coherently.

If you are a music teacher, wearing ear plugs is advisable as being surrounded constantly by students playing instruments can damage your hearing. Beginners tend to play instruments a lot louder than professionals and can reach to approximately 140 decibels. It is also a great idea to get your students using earplugs especially as children’s ears are a lot more sensitive.

Working at industrial sites/farms

Health and safety in the industrial environment is crucial, especially with heavy machinery being used across the area all week long.

Noise reduction ear plugs are also extremely useful for working farmers when having to feed their herds. Pig’s squeals can reach to approximately 100 decibels during feeding so it is vital to protect your hearing on a regular basis. This is also true when working with farming machinery which can reach over the safe 87 decibels, putting farmers at risk of hearing loss.

How Earplugs Improve Your Quality of Life

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Are earplugs really that important? How can something so small, inexpensive earplugs make such a big impact on a person’s life as to improve the quality? We worry about many areas of health, yet tend to neglect our hearing health. The fact is, hearing loss is very prevalent and common in aging as well as in younger adults who are exposed to loud music via music venues, iPods and handheld gaming devices.

Think about it this way, most factory workers exposed to noise on a regular basis protect their hearing through the use of work earplugs, but you might be exposed to similar noises in the course of a day and never protect your hearing. Turn up an iPod to full blast (as many teens do) and you have the equivalent of listening to heavy machinery. Many common noises are just as dangerous as industrial noises: mowing the lawn, listening to a concert, music in a club, children’s toys. Continue reading →

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 →