The Health and Safety North 2017

ProtectHear® will be attending The Health and Safety North Show, being held at Event City Manchester.  The event will be 2 days from Tuesday 10^th October – Wednesday 11^th October, organised yet again by Western Business Exhibitions.

The event has lots of attractive benefits allowing visitors to look at the full programme of conferences, seminars and guest speakers. The Fire Safety North will also be co-located within The Health and Safety Show.

Once again this will be a great opportunity for ProtectHear® to promote products/services, aimed at stamping out claims on NIHL (Noise Induced Hearing Loss). Education is most important when talking about hearing protection, we are committed to giving employees insightful knowledge on how custom ear plugs can benefit.

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The Safecontractor Scheme Renewal

ProtectHear® is proud to announce we have renewed our Safecontractor Scheme, this is essential for us to be compliant with the Health and Safety regulations expected in working on customer premises.

Safecontractor is a large private sector health and safety accreditation Scheme in the UK, with more than 30,000 clients the Safecontractor boasts a large portfolio.

Check out more of our accreditations and memberships.

What is an SNR level?

A Single Number Rating (SNR) is a specification used to determine protection levels given by all hearing protection and provides an easy reference to compare the different types of hearing protection. The higher the SNR level the more protection the product gives in a noisy environment. It is commonly thought that 29 SNR would protect by 29dB, but this isn’t accurate. Protection levels can be found out by comparing the Octave Band Analysis (noise testing) of your environment, against the octave band table provided by all hearing protection. The SNR protection is dependent on the level of frequency.

All companies must provide hearing protection as an option when the noise level is on average 80dB, with a noise level of 85dB being the action level where hearing protection is made mandatory.  Companies must also ensure they are not over-protecting employees; protectors should not attenuate to a level below 70dB. This is to guarantee employees can still communicate and hear warning signals.

We offer 4 filters for our ProtectHear® product being 14, 23, 29 and 31 SNR. This is to give customers more options when your environment is either just above the action level or at the top level.  For example the 14 SNR would be for noise levels at the action level therefore not over-protecting. Whereas the 31 SNR would be used at around 95dB level, again being dependant on your noise survey with both examples. Our ProtectHear® attenuates noises to a safe level, meaning our ear plugs can be worn all day without having to take out for conversations.

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