Monthly Archives: December 2018

Tips for protecting your hearing during the festivities.

December 14, 2018

Its that time of the year again. 

As a Hearing Conservation company we wanted to provide you with a few tips for protecting your hearing during the festivities:

  • Try to reduce as much background noise as possible. If you are having a conversation with a small group of people in a larger party, try to break off into a smaller section of the room that may not be as loud. Choose the calmest section of a restaurant or party to socialize in.
  • Sit in the center of the dinner table so you are close to people all around you. If you sit at the end of a long table, your chances of hearing the folks at the end of the table are minimal.
  • Try to keep good lighting to facilitate your ability to rely on facial cues to help fill in the blanks when you mishear something. We all lipread a bit. 
  • If the music is too loud at a party – as it often is – don’t hesitate to ask for the volume to reduced slightly or pull out your reliable dB Blockers to block some of that unwanted noise. 

You shouldn’t have to think about hearing over the holidays, however, if you find yourself constantly working hard to hear, or relying heavily on the tips above, it is time to have a hearing test. Contact us and we can help you protect your ears! 

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Holiday Season Hours:

CLOSED

 Friday, December 21, 2018  -10:30 am – Tuesday, January 1, 2019 
will reopen under regular hours Wednesday, January 2, 2019

OPENED (HOLIDAY HOURS) 

Thursday, December 27th, & Friday, December 28th, 2018 –  8:00 am to 3:00 pm (PST)

Inquiries may be made at hear@protectear.com

From all of us at Custom Protect Ear –

Happy Holidays!

Why you should choose a ISO 9001 provider for your Hearing Conservation Plan

December 11, 2018

An effective occupational Hearing Conservation Plan (HCP) preserves and protects the hearing of employees who work in manufacturing, farms, mines, military bases and other noisy workplaces. An HCP also gives employees the knowledge they need to protect themselves from nonoccupational noise exposure. Since most HCP consists of Noise measurement, Noise control, Audiometric testing, Employee education/ training, and hearing protection we encourage most organizations to choose a provider who is ISO 9001 certified. Why? 

What is ISO 9001

iso ISO 9001 is a comprehensive management system standard. ISO 9001 is maintained by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization and is administered by independent accreditation and certification bodies.

Some of the requirements in ISO 9001 include:

• A set of procedures that cover all key processes in the business
• Monitoring processes to ensure they are effective
• Keeping adequate records
• Checking output for defects, with appropriate and corrective action where necessary
• Regularly reviewing individual processes and the quality system itself for effectiveness
• Facilitating continual improvement

 

Why choosing an ISO 9001 provider is a good idea?

The benefits of ISO 9001 are not overstated; companies large and small have gained great benefits from using this standard by discovering cost and efficiency savings. Here are a couple of explanations of benefits to you and your company and why they are important:

Improvement of your credibility and image

Because ISO 9001 is an internationally recognized standard, it has become the basis for creating a quality management system around the world, replacing many previously published requirements. When a company is looking for a supplier, it is often a requirement to have a QMS based on ISO 9001 in order to be considered. This means that your investment in hearing testing and protection adheres to a quality standard in the industry. You are getting the best.

Improvement of customer satisfaction

One of the quality management principles that are the foundation of the ISO 9001 requirements is to improve customer satisfaction by planning for and striving to meet customer requirements. This is vital to the success of your HCP program because satisfied wearers can mean happier employees and higher productivity and work safety standards.

ISO 9001

Custom Protect Ear has been independently audited and certified to be in conformance with ISO 9001.

This certification assures our customers that the quality of the products they currently trust to protect their hearing will be the same quality they will get every time in the future. The certification assures the quality and sustainability of its’ product and services for all of its’ customers.

Learn More about CPE’ ISO 9001 certification. 

Custom Protect Ear manufacturing is ISO 9001 certified. Every pair must meet our exacting standards before being packaged and shipped to the user’s worksite.

How We Make dB Blockers at Custom Protect Ear

T’IS THE SEASON OF GIVING: CPE donates $40,540 to Canadian Cancer Society

December 3, 2018

November, 29th, Surrey BC.

Custom Protect Ear donates $40,540.00 the Canadian Cancer Society.

The total of $40,540 of represents the monies collected and matched since 2010, for the Pink dB Blocker Initiative. All proceeds are provided to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Below see Picture: (Left – Dagne Blaauw, Jeff Goldberg and Right-Laura Bennett) 

Cancer society

 

What is the Pink dB Blocker Initiative

Your support of our products allows CPE to donate a portion of what we make to charity each year, and facilitate ways in which to raise additional money for causes that touch our stakeholders personally. One of the ways we contribute is through the Pink Blocker Initiative. 

One of CPE community support initiatives is a program that partners with you to support Breast Cancer Research. By matching the $5 added to your purchase of each pair of pink dB Blockers, CPE will send $10 to the Canadian Cancer Society

The pink ear-piece shows that you are a supporter, and an active participant in your community’s support network.

Cause-related initiatives are an important part of the CPE corporate culture, and we welcome your ideas for helping us expand our programs in cancer research, autism support, education for better hearing health, and more eco-friendly ways of doing business.

When it comes to  Cancer, dB Cares™ 

Canadian Cancer society

 “We wish to thank all those who have so willingly donated to the cause to help find the cure”. 

The Custom Protect Ear Team

dB Cares