WHY CHOOSE dB Blockers!

July 8, 2024

Industrial facilities are increasingly opting for dB Blockers as their primary hearing protection solution for several key reasons:

Custom Fit: dB Blockers are custom-moulded to the individual’s ear, providing a secure and comfortable fit. This customizability ensures that the earplugs effectively reduce noise exposure without causing discomfort, which is critical for long-term wear in industrial settings.
Superior Noise Reduction: dB Blockers offer high levels of noise attenuation, making them particularly effective in loud industrial environments. This helps in protecting workers’ hearing from the high decibel levels commonly found in such settings.
Durability: Made from durable materials, dB Blockers are designed to withstand harsh industrial conditions. This longevity makes them a cost-effective solution, as they do not need to be replaced as frequently as disposable earplugs.
Ease of Communication: Many dB Blockers are designed to allow for effective communication while still providing hearing protection. This is achieved through specialized filters that reduce harmful noise levels but still allow the user to hear speech and important warning signals.
Compliance and Safety: Using dB Blockers helps facilities comply with occupational safety and health regulations regarding noise exposure. Proper hearing protection is essential to meet regulatory standards and ensure the safety and well-being of employees.
Employee Satisfaction: Comfortable and effective hearing protection is more likely to be used consistently by employees. The custom fit and comfort of dB Blockers mean that workers are more likely to wear them correctly and consistently, improving overall compliance with safety protocols.
Reduced Risk of Hearing Damage: By providing reliable hearing protection, dB Blockers help reduce the risk of noise-induced hearing loss among workers. This not only protects employees’ health but can also reduce potential liability and costs associated with hearing loss claims.
Reusability and Hygiene: dB Blockers can be easily cleaned and reused, promoting better hygiene and reducing waste compared to disposable earplugs. This is beneficial for both the environment and the company’s bottom line.

These factors make dB Blockers a popular choice for industrial facilities aiming to provide effective, reliable, and comfortable hearing protection for industrial workers. To learn more about getting your facility fitted for dB Blockers – GET STARTED today!

Crafting a Hearing Conservation Program

January 30, 2024

A well-structured Hearing Conservation Program is essential for safeguarding your workplace against noise-related risks.

Here’s how to set it up:

🔊 Step 1: Noise Assessment – Begin by monitoring noise levels at your worksite. Your program’s foundation depends on your worksite’s noise generation.

🔊 Step 2: Noise Control – Implement measures to manage and reduce noise levels effectively.

🔊 Step 3: Hearing Protection – Provide and promote the use of hearing protection devices to shield your workforce.

🔊 Step 4: Audiometric Testing – Schedule regular testing to monitor hearing health and identify early warning signs.

🔊 Step 5: Program Evaluation – Continually assess and improve your program to ensure its effectiveness.

🔊 Step 6: Training and Education – Equip your team with the knowledge and skills needed to protect their hearing.

🚀 When to Consider a Hearing Conservation Program?

A Hearing Conservation Program is strongly recommended if:
Workers face exposure to noise levels exceeding 80 dBA.
Workplace alterations, new equipment, or process modifications may significantly alter noise exposure.
Note that specific requirements for noise assessment may vary by jurisdiction. Conducting an assessment at an action level of 80 dBA offers enhanced protection.
Your employees’ hearing well-being is an investment in your workplace’s future. Craft your Hearing Conservation Program with care and diligence.

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The Hidden Risks of High-Frequency Noise

December 13, 2023

The Hidden Risks of High-Frequency Noise…

Noise, often underestimated, can pose significant risks to our well-being. Here is the second part of what you need to know:

🔹 Hearing Damage:

Exposure to harmful noise, especially in the workplace, can lead to permanent and disabling hearing loss. This damage can occur gradually over time or suddenly due to extremely loud noises. Such hearing loss can make it challenging to comprehend speech, engage in conversations, or even use the telephone. But that’s not all – noise can also trigger distressing conditions like tinnitus, disrupting our sleep patterns.

🔹 Safety Concerns:

Noise doesn’t just affect our hearing; it can create safety hazards at work. It interferes with communication, making warnings harder to hear, and reduces awareness of our surroundings. In essence, noise can compromise safety, putting people at risk of injury or

🌟 Health and Safety Regulations:

To mitigate these risks, companies must take action. Depending on the level of risk, they should reduce noise exposure and provide personal hearing protection to employees. The regulations also require companies to ensure that legal limits on noise exposure aren’t exceeded, maintain noise control equipment, provide education and training, and monitor workers’ hearing ability.

🌟 Identifying Noise Problems:

Companies need to ask themselves if they have a noise issue in the workplace. If any of the following conditions apply, action must be taken:

The noise is intrusive, akin to a busy road, vacuum cleaner, or a crowded restaurant, for most of the working day.
Employees need to raise their voices to have a conversation.
Noisy-powered tools or machinery are used for extended periods.
The industry involves noisy tasks, like construction, woodworking, or foundries.

🌟 Safety Considerations:

Safety concerns related to noise arise when warning sounds are used to avoid danger, work practices rely on verbal communication, or when work is near mobile machinery or traffic.

🌟 Taking Action:

If you’ve identified noise-related risks at your workplace, it’s crucial to conduct an assessment and develop a Hearing Loss Prevention Plan to protect your employees’ well-being.

Learn how to protect your hearing in high-frequency noise

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Safeguarding Your Hearing in the Packaging Industry

November 29, 2023

In the fast-paced world of packaging, where productivity is paramount, effective coordination hinges on seamless communication. But how can you prioritize safety without compromising this vital communication? 🔇📦

👂 Custom dB Blockers:

Introducing Custom Protect Ear’s (CPE) dB Blockers, specifically tailored for the dynamic packaging industry. These cutting-edge hearing protectors not only shield your team’s hearing but also ensure crystal-clear communication. Whether in corrugated box facilities or aluminum can production plants, your workforce can maintain operational smoothness without relocating to quieter zones, even during unforeseen events.

🎯 Worker Safety:

In packaging, hearing protection transcends noise; it’s about safety. While plastic bottling plants may not be as acoustically demanding, they present unique risks due to exposure to specific chemicals. With undefined safe exposure levels, providing proper hearing protection becomes a non-negotiable for employee well-being.

🌟 Employee Well-Being:

Our dB Blockers are custom-fitted for optimal comfort, ensuring your workers remain focused and at ease, regardless of temperature conditions. Investing in their hearing health goes beyond shielding ears; it promotes sharper, more concentrated performance.

Prioritize worker safety and unhindered communication in the packaging industry with dB Blockers by Custom Protect Ear. 🛡️

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3 Reasons Why You Should Choose dB Blockers

March 30, 2023

At Custom Protect Ear it is our goal to eliminate Noise Induced Hearing Loss.

We deliver this in 3 ways:

1. dB blockers are EXTREMELY COMFORTABLE, which means people are willing to wear them for their entire shift.

2. Those wearing dB blockers HEAR EACH OTHER BETTER, which improves workplace safety, communication, and productivity.

3. dB blockers are more COST EFFECTIVE than disposable hearing protectors, so you pay less for a better product.

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The RIGHT hearing protection for Machinists, Steelwork & Fabrication workers

February 24, 2023

dB Blockers™ for Machinists, Steelwork & Fabrication workers

“Workers in the shipping and steelwork industries are exposed to the highest levels of occupational pollution because they work close to heavy industrial blowers that produce sounds of up to 112 dBA or higher.” Industrial noise pollution is caused by plants and factories – it can have an impact on the people working within as well as those living around these industrial buildings.

Machinists, Fabricators and maintenance people need to hear their machinery sound a certain way to ensure that it is running properly, so they don’t often wear their earplugs correctly.

Without the proper protective equipment, steel workers become prone to hearing damage which hinders their ability to detect a machine’s problems before it breaks down, resulting in costly consequences. dB Blockers provide your workers with the complete protection and audible range needed efficiently doing their job.

Learn more about how dB Blockers fit perfectly and come in with a convenient handle (The Grip) for clean, easy insertion and removal. For welders, disposable earplugs are not only inadequate but also dangerous as they melt, and even burn when hot slag hits them. dB Blocker - The Grip

Interested in learning about Innovation hearing solutions, contact us today!

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October is National Protect You Hearing Month

October 5, 2022

Mark your calendars October is National Protect Your Hearing Month

CDC supports National Protect Your Hearing Month (#NPYHM). It is an annual event each October to provide an opportunity to raise awareness about hearing and speech problems. People are encouraged to think about their own hearing and to get their hearing checked if they think there might be a problem.

Hearing loss should matter to everyone!

Did you know there is no cure for hearing loss? This is why hearing protection is important and designed for everyone. You can prevent hearing loss by protecting your hearing.

Avoid loud noise whenever possible and turn down the volume on personal listening devices. If you can’t avoid loud noise, use hearing protection like hearing moulds, earplugs or earmuffs to protect your ears.

Hearing loss happens to all people and ages. Sometimes hearing loss can happen due to occupational hazards or from everyday sounds and noises. Early identification and intervention for hearing loss is important. Many people live with unidentified hearing loss, often failing to realize that they are missing certain sounds and words. Checking one’s hearing would be the first step towards addressing the issue.

Do you use your music, your show, or a podcast to shut out the noise around you? Be cautious; hearing loss is real. A volume that lets you hear someone a few feet away is a safer way to go.

What you should know about hearing loss

Repeated exposure to loud noise over the years can damage your hearing—long after exposure has stopped.

This is just one of the many informative facts available on CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health’s new hearing loss website.

Help us spread the word about National Protect Your Hearing Month

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Noise Levels and Exposure (Noise Reduction Rating)

March 16, 2022

Noise Levels and Exposure

Noise reduction headphones are rated in decibels (dB). Before discussing the noise reduction rated values it is important to understand how noise is measured and how to identify, based on those measurements, when hearing protection is required. Noise is measured in units of sound pressure levels called decibels (dB). Typically, an “A” weighted filter is applied to the measurement, dB(A), because it provides measurements that more accurately represent the sensitivity of the human auditory system by de-emphasizing sound energy in the low and high frequencies in comparison to energy in the mid-frequency range.

What is NRR NOISE REDUCTION RATING (NRR)

A Noise Reduction Rating, also sometimes referred to under the umbrella term of “hearing protection rating,” can be a confusing concept for individuals who are just starting out in the world of hearing protection terminology. To keep it simple, Noise Reduction Ratings are a set of “rules” that are set in place to serve as an absolute point of reference for those who are serious about protecting worker hearing. The NRR essentially functions as a “ruler” that measures how well a particular piece of hearing protection or equipment may work in real-time and space.

Why NRR matters NOISE REDUCTION RATING (NRR)

When it comes to assessing the effectiveness of hearing protection, Specialists often look at the Attenuation Estimation Systems. NRR is a common method (rating) used to determine the attenuation (expressing values of noise reduction or attenuation provided by different types of hearing protectors). The values range from 0 to approximately 30, with higher values indicating greater amounts of noise reduction.

Since the NRR is based on laboratory testing, it does not consider the loss of protection that occurs when hearing protectors are not fit properly or when they are not worn for the entire time that the wearer is exposed to noise.

Learn More about NRR: https://www.protectear.com/field_attenuation_estimation_systems.

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Happy Labor from ProtectEar USA

September 4, 2020

From all of us at Protect Ear USA, we wish you a Safe and Happy Labor Day weekend.

PLUS – do not forget – wear all the necessary Personal Protective Equipment, especially your hearing protectors.

“On Labor Day, stop and smell the barbecue. Relax by the pool, and enjoy the last days of summer with those who motivate you to give your best at work all the time. Happy Labor Day to you and yours!”

Thank you!
The PEUS Team

March is Hearing Loss Prevention Safety month.

March 23, 2020

Occupational hearing loss is the most common work-related injury in the United States. Approximately 22 million U.S. workers exposed to hazardous noise levels at work, and an additional 9 million exposed to ototoxic chemicals.

An estimated $242 million is spent annually on worker’s compensation for hearing loss disability.

NIOSH recommends that all worker exposures to noise should be controlled below a level equivalent to 85 dBA for eight hours to minimize occupational noise induced hearing loss. NIOSH also recommends a 3 dBA exchange rate so that every increase by 3 dBA doubles the amount of the noise and halves the recommended amount of exposure time.

Four million workers go to work each day in damaging noise. Ten million people in the U.S. have a noise-related hearing loss. Twenty-two million workers are exposed to potentially damaging noise each year.
In 2008, approximately 2 million U.S. workers were exposed to noise levels at work that put them at risk of hearing loss.
In 2007, approximately 23,000 cases were reported of occupational hearing loss that was great enough to cause hearing impairment.
Reported cases of hearing loss accounted for 14% of occupational illness in 2007.
In 2007, approximately 82% of the cases involving occupational hearing loss were reported among workers in the manufacturing sector.

Over the past few decades, much has been learned about the implementation of hearing loss prevention programs. The eight components of a successful hearing loss prevention program include:

1) noise exposure monitoring,

2) engineering and administrative controls,

3) audiometric evaluation,

4) use of hearing protection devices,

5) education and motivation

6) record keeping,

7) program evaluation, and

8) program audit.

Don’t forget to do your part to promote awareness about Hearing Loss Prevention Safety Month!

SOURCE

Acknowledgments to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/noise/