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Posted By Barrie (Badger) Etter
Prior to taking up the safety gauntlet I knew of a safety officer with medical training preferring muffs simply due to not liking objects being inserted into the ear canal.
So, if conflict with other PPE was NOT a problem and the forum had a choice for picking one type of hearing protection, which would they plump for?
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Posted By SBH
Potentially you could damage your ears if you insert things into them. I would go for muffs everytime
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Posted By Kevin Drum
Providing as you say they do not interfere with other PPE and offer the same leven of protection I would prefer muffs, but I found that when trying to ensure all operators who worked in an area that required the wearing of hearing protection, it was best to offer them the choice and help to get buy-in.
With 200 operators on shoop floor it was also easier for me to see who was wearing muffs!
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter
Barrie
While personal preference should be accommodated where possible, the choice of protection should be dictated by the characteristics of the noise to be attenuated.
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Posted By Pete Longworth
We provide earplugs that are individually fitted to the person. They are quite expensive but we find that they work very well. They attenuate certain frequencies more than others so can be used to allow speech to be heard. You would need to do a thorough assessment including octave band analysis to be sure that your problem frequencies don't coincide with the frequency of human speech.
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Posted By Ron Hunter
Muffs - easy to see if worn and if worn correctly. In-ear protection is all too often incorrectly inserted, and there is a potential hygiene issue in some industries.
Always assuming there are no compatibility issues with other PPE or normal spectacles.
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Posted By James Denman
Muffs
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Posted By Barrie (Badger) Etter
Ear muffs 4
Plugs (fitted) 1
Non committal 1
Ok, with the bias towards the ear muff what brand (You being happy customers of such) and allowing for correct SNR to bring the noise level below the lower action level, what would the forum go for? (and end user happy to have anything):
Cheap - limited padding?
Mid range - half decent padding?
Top line - full pillow, send you to sleep on?
Full whistles and bangs - radio fitted with P.A. system included.?
Over to you
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