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Practical Guides

These pamphlet-sized guides are packed full of useful tidbits to make the most of your hearing conservation program.
Eight guides are available.


Guide 1: Selecting Hearing Protection
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  • Formable Insert Plugs
  • Premolded Plugs
  • Custom Molded Plugs
  • Semi-Inserts/Canal Caps
  • Earmuffs
  • Noise Reduction Estimates
  • Electronic/Active HPDs

Guide 2: Fitting Hearing Protection
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  • Tips for Fitting Earplugs
  • Tips for Fitting Earmuffs
  • How Do I Know if it's Working?
  • The Three Steps to Effective Hearing Protection

Guide 3: Mobile Hearing Testing and Selecting a Provider
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  • Testing Personnel - Experience and Supervision
  • Monitoring Ambient Noise
  • Mobile Unit Location and Considerations
  • Health and Safety Checklist

Guide 4: Complying with OSHA's Hearing Conservation Amendment
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  • Assess Risk Exposure
  • Test Hearing
  • Hearing Protection
  • Training
  • Noise Controls
  • STS
  • Do I need a Hearing Conservation Program?

Guide 5: Noise and Hearing in the Farming Community
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  • Facts about Hearing Loss
  • How Loud Can It Be?
  • What Farmers Do to Protect Themselves?
  • An Action Plan

Guide 6: Hearing Loss Prevention for Musicians
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  • How Loud is Too Loud?
  • How to be Loud and Safe
  • On the Gig and Off
  • Not Just for Rockers

Guide 7: Hearing Protection and Shooting Sports
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  • Potential risk from shooting activities
  • What can I do to protect my ears?
  • Effects of noise induced hearing loss
  • Where to go for help

Guide 8: Crank It Down: Noise...Hearing Loss and Children

  • How can we prevent noise-induced hearing loss in children?
  • How much hearing loss is there among children?
  • What are some of the potential causes of hearing loss in children?
  • How does hearing loss happen in children?
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