What can be done?
One of the simplest solutions is to insure that employees have good hearing protection.
Millions of hearing protection plugs are sold each year to hunters, farmers, musicians, music lovers, and industrial workers, the latter being in the majority since the passage of 50.204.10 of the Walsh-Healey Act, Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSHA).
The increased concern by industry, government, and public over the industrial hearing safetly will continue until everyone exposed to dangerous noise levels owns some type of approved protection.
How the Noise Braker® Helps Industry
The Hocks Noise Braker® is preferred by employers and employees for many reasons:
- contains an acoustical chamber which reduces all sound to approximately speech level
- permits the wearer to hear and carry on conversation at all times without removing or adjusting the unit, while protecting hearing
- can be worn continuously without discomfort
- ear channel is not blocked
- made of soft material that can be cleaned easily
- change of elevation will not bother wearer
- have excellent retention
- instead of plugging or sealing the ear, Hocks Noise Brakers® are designed to allow air and sound up to 80 dBA to enter
- has no mechanical or electronic parts to move,wear out, or injure the ear
- surveys show that more than 70% of workers using Hocks Noise Brakers® take them home for use in recreational activities
Protecting Ears, On & Off the Job
Surveys show that over 60% of industrial users of Hocks NoiseBrakers® wear them off the job while operating chain saws, lawn mowers, tillers, shop equipment, boats, cars, motorcycles, aircraft, snowmobiles, shooting, and other recreational pursuits.
Many workmen are exposed to more noise off the job than on. This is important to industry because, if employees are working in a noisy area, they can only be required to wear ear defense while on the job. Unless they are satisfied with the ear protection, they won't wear them off the job and any loss will accrue to the employer's liability.
Compensation awarded to employees for hearing loss and tinnitus due to noise exposure is growing at an alarming rate.
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