Presenters:

• Laura Kauth, Moderator
• Tim Chismar - 3M

• 3M Personal Safety Division offers comprehensive solutions, influenced by our vast industrial experience, to proactively address growing worker health and safety needs in our rapidly evolving world.  Protecting people, improving lives, and enhancing productivity. 

• Tim Chismar is the North American Product Marketer for the 3M™ PELTOR™ Portfolio of protective communication solutions.  With a background in biomedical engineering and business administration (and a former COHC), Tim has developed and supported numerous auditory solutions over the last 15 years including products under the Littmann® brand of stethoscopes and now with PELTOR protective communication headsets.
• Susan Cooper - CavCom

• TeamTalk™ helps work crews overcome the challenges of communicating in environments where noise, respirators, and task complexity can affect safety and productivity. TeamTalk™ allows team members to talk and hear one another in full duplex (hands-free, without having to press a button) and in real time.The TeamTalk™ T-9 system can accommodate hands-free communication for up to 9 users, plus unlimited PTT users. The T-9 can also be linked to a two-way radio using RadioLink™, allowing team members to communicate outside their hands-free group when needed. TeamTalk™ can be paired with a variety of CavCom’s field-proven accessories, including headsets and Talk Through Your Ears® earsets with in-ear microphone (compatible with respirators, PAPRs, HazMat suits, and more). Universal style and fully custom lab-manufactured earpieces for a variety of noise environments are available. For over 25 years, CavCom has provided innovative hearing protection and communication solutions to companies with high noise and other challenging work environments. CavCom engineered and patented the award-winning Talk Through Your Ears® technology, a revolutionary design concept that ensures superior hearing protection and 2-way radio communication in a lightweight all-in-the-ear earpiece. Our lab-manufactured fully custom and universal-style hearing protection devices and earsets are specially designed for multiple noise reduction options, excellent speech intelligibility, and safe listening levels. CavCom strives to be a true partner by working directly with customers to solve unique noise and communication challenges. We offer on-site individual fit testing to enhance hearing conservation program success.

• Susan Cooper, PhD, is Vice President, Technology for CavCom. Susan received her BA degree from Emory University and MA and PhD degrees from the University of Kansas. She is certified as an audiologist by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She is an active committee member for the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) and serves on the board of directors of the NHCA Scholarship Foundation. She is a member of the noise committee of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and was a contributing author to the recently published 6^th Edition AIHA Noise Manual. Susan is a past chair of the Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC) and past president of NHCA. She is a recipient of NHCA's Threadgill Award for Outstanding Service.

• James Schrack – Decibullz 
• Decibullz came about in 2012 as the brainchild of founder Kyle Kirkpatrick, who wanted a way to keep his earphones in his ears while doing all the extreme sports he loved to do while listening to music. Custom earphones existed, but they were expensive and quite a commitment. He got creating and developed a patented thermoplastic molding system that allowed users to shape a material quickly and easily to their individual ear, and remold and reshape as many times as needed at an affordable price point. Quickly the opportunity arose to utilize the same patented thermoplastic molding system to address a gap in the market of hearing protection. Today Decibullz has sold over a million molds into the marketplace providing an affordable, and accessible spin on custom molded earplugs and earpieces. All Decibullz products utilize the same Easy Shape molding system, where the molds are dropped into hot water, left to soften for about 5 minutes and then pressed into the user's ear for a comfortable and snug fit. This simple process can be repeated as many times as needed to achieve the most comfortable and protective fit. The standard NRR31 earplugs come in 6 different colors and have an MSRP of $25.99. They are the number one hunting and shooting earplugs on Amazon for the past several years and are prevalent in the retail sporting goods industry, most big box retailers, and hundreds of independent retailers across the country and abroad. Decibullz has several products within the family that include Acoustic High Fidelity Fillers, Professional High Fidelity filters, Persecutive Shooting filters, and several Acoustic tube radio earpiece adapters. The whole goal of Decibullz is to make custom more accessible to the masses. We want to make it easy to do, affordable, and not such a burdensome process so that more people can experience the benefits of custom.
• James Schrack is a Colorado native and relentless entrepreneur. He joined the Decibullz team in early 2019 and quickly grew the wholesale side of the blossoming business quickly. James thrives in a scrappy environment and loves to achieve things others see as impossible. His background is not in hearing protection, but rather in taking great new innovative products to market and he quickly latched on to the Decibullz team and vision. He continues to love the atmosphere and really believes in the direction and technology Decibullz has to offer and believes it has a unique fit into the marketplace.
• Andy Wetjen – Protective Industrial Products (PIP)
• PIP is a Head to Toe manufacturer of workplace safety PPE specializing in Hand Protection, Above-the-Neck PPE (eye, face, head, hearing), Protective Workwear, and Arc Flash & Electrical Safety. This section of the webinar will provide an overview of the wide-variety of basic hearing protection options discussing: variety and quality vs compliance fit, size options, compatibility with other PPE, and customizations (colors, logos).
  • Andy Wetjen's background is in Industrial Safety Supply products and sales since 1996.

• Program Level: Beginner

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