Hearing Protection Equipment – Preventing Industrial Hearing Loss

Hearing loss results from exposure to average, loud and peal level sounds. In today’s world of industrial expansion, hearing loss results from loud noises that generate from heavy construction vehicles and equipment, industrial machinery, aircraft, gunfire, power tools, auto race tracks, mining works, aviation construction and many others. Other loud noise sources include sporting events, music concerts, and carpenter drills that can result in hearing loss. Evaluating the dangers that result from these loud noise environments, organizations are resorting to innovative hearing protection equipment in the form of earplugs and earmuffs. They not only help in the reduction of excess noise but also facilitate smooth communication.

There are a few industry sectors where workers would require high-attenuation hearing protection equipment. Miners, flight crew, shipbuilders associated with flight deck and jet aircraft fall under this section. These people often cannot get sufficient attenuation for secure hearing protection with the earmuff and plug combination. However, on the other hand, there are a set of industrial workers who can be secured at 10Db attenuation.

Keeping all these concerns in mind, there are several organizations today that have come up with new age hearing protection equipment. They have built-in blue tooth technology that helps in two-way face-to-face communication, both in short as well as long distance. Workers can wear these devices easily around the neck or sport them in their pockets akin to a MP3 player. Other features of the earmuffs and earplugs are-

  • Permits communication in environments beyond 85Db

  • Allows face-to-face communication up to 95Db

  • There is an MP3 interface

  • Ear tips are replaceable

  • High visibility color

  • Allows workers to hear surrounding noises along with the speech

  • Protects from all types of noises, namely continuous, intermittent and impact

  • Two way radio interface

  • Binaural capability that allows you to hear speech direction along with other sounds

  • Bluetooth communication up to 95Db

  • Industrial ruggedized

Service providers have introduced numerous hearing protection device product variants in the market. A few notable ones are the smart earplugs, smart earphones, smart headphones and many others.

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