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doseBadge5 Helps Workers Protect Their Hearing

By Cirrus Research

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Published: August 13th, 2018

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Ear protection isn’t the most stylish or fashionable thing to wear and it can certainly impede your ability to have a conversation. Many people see and read the signs around industrial areas that highlight the importance of wearing PPE, but many people chose to ignore their warnings and carry on with their jobs without wearing any sort of protection.

Wearing hearing protection is incredibly important in order to prevent noise-induced hearing loss and other noise-related health conditions, and it’s important for employers to ensure their workers are wearing the correct PPE to ensure that they are not liable for any injury-at-work claims in the future. Read how the doseBadge5 from Cirrus Research helped a group of factory workers in Ireland understand the importance of wearing hearing protection in our latest case study.

The client

IAC Ltd, Republic of Ireland

The issue

Employee resistance to wearing hearing protection

The product

doseBadge5 personal noise dosimeter

The solution

It’s not always easy to get people to do what we want all the time, but when there is the possibility of future claims for noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), then employers cannot afford to feign ignorance.

Acoustic Engineer Bernard Fogarty has 30 years’ experience in noise measurement and there are very few scenarios he hasn’t come across during that time. Unfortunately, one issue that continues to crop up is employees who show a stubborn reluctance towards wearing hearing protection.

Bernard was asked to undertake an acoustic study for a well-known drinks manufacturer based in the Republic of Ireland, who was concerned over noise levels in one particular plant where employees were regularly seen by-passing noise protection equipment.

Bernard hired 13 doseBadge5 personal dosimeters from Cirrus Research to enable him to comprehensively monitor a group of employees over a five-day period, on a 7.30am – 3.30pm shift.

“This is a company that takes employee welfare extremely seriously and they needed to have up-to-date and accurate data to establish if noise levels were going over the 85db limit, and for how long,” he explained.

“I had some of the workers telling me they already knew the noise levels were fine and so they didn’t need hearing protection. The data I was collecting was actually going to be an education process for the employees, as much as letting the company know if there were any issues around noise levels”.

The plant environment where Bernard was monitoring is processing-based with drink manufacturing and bottling all taking place under one roof. The factory has been in operation for some time and the noise levels on the factory floor were exacerbated by some of the older machinery – metal on metal, bottle on metal – that couldn’t be engineered out.

“The noise never ceases and as I was looking around I could see there were people not wearing ear muffs or ear plugs,” said Bernard. “People often complain they are uncomfortable or they can’t hear if someone is talking to them, but the limits are there for their own protection and need to be enforced.”

Over the course of the five-day period, the range of noise captured by Bernard spanned from 80-87dBs – right on the cusp of the Noise at Work limits.

“For me, the most important feature of the doseBadge5 was the ability to set the start and finish time,” said Bernard. “When you are working with 13 individuals it is always going to be difficult to get uniformity across the group; people set the doseBadge off at different times, sometimes forgetting altogether, and then you have lost a day’s data without knowing it until it is too late, and that is a worst-case scenario.

“Being able to set the start and finish times ensured I had absolute uniformity across the data and the graphs were crystal clear for both the employers and employees to easily understand. Located on the shoulder, the doseBadge5 gave me very precise data and I was also able to take out lunch breaks with noisy chatter and shouting for even more clarity.

“Throughout the project, I did have all the individuals’ full co-operation and at the end of the process, the workers were much more engaged; wanting to see their own data which we could easily provide. One even started to ask me about noise levels while he was mowing his lawn at home,” laughed Bernard. “I had to say my remit only covered his work and not home life as well!”

The outcome

Overall, everyone was happy with the outcome and the Noise at Work limits are now much more clearly understood by the employees, who are taking the necessary precautions to protect their hearing in the workplace.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cirrus Research

Founded in 1970, Cirrus Research plc is a leading specialist in the development and production of noise measurement instruments. Its latest scientific and technological developments are utilised to produce noise measurement instrumentation equipment to accurately measure noise and its impact.

As an industry leader, all of its products are manufactured in the UK and are used in a wide range of different applications within the construction, transport, aviation, manufacturing and leisure & sport sectors.

Cirrus is part of the British Safety Industry Federation’s Registered Safety Supplier Scheme, identifying its organisation and products as ‘genuine and safe’, assuring customers that the products supplied are genuine, properly tested and certificated. Cirrus Research is an ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 Registered Company.

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