Hearing and Ear Protection Guides
As a professional, working in industries such as factories, commercial diving, pro athletic sports or even the military there are measures in place to make sure you look after or are encouraged to look after your ears. There are many guidelines, hearing checks and monitoring of ear protection that occurs to regulate employees hearing. In day to day living, bad habits and leisure activities taken up without understanding the impact on your ears and hearing can cause long lasting damage. That is why Your Hearing Helper has put together this section to help you maintain your ear health whilst still enjoying your hobbies and daily life.
Hearing and Ear Protection for Water Exposure
Water is an essential part to our daily lives, in certain conditions regular water flushing into our ears presents a number of challenges. With more and more water activities becoming popular, knowing how to protect your ears in water will maintain their healthy functioning.
Noise Protection
In recent years better health and safety in the work place has meant that if you work in an enviroment exceeding 85dB for a period of time, certain precautions need to be taken and the use of ear protection is mandatory. That being said noisey environments are not just found in the work place and outside of the working enviroment exist no guidelines to be met or mainstream education on what you should do. That is why this section is specifically aimed at leisure activites within noisy environments and why and how you should protect your ears.
The chart to the left shows the permissible exposure time (acceptable time allowed) in loud sounds. Do any of your hobbies involve loud sounds? If so how loud are they and how long do you spend in that loudness.
Pressure Exposure
Familiar with the sensation of going up a hill or up in an aeroplane and your ears starting to pop? Due to the pressure difference of your middle ear and a change In the pressure external to your ear this causes a need to equalise your middle ear pressure. If you are exposed to pressure regularly this page will have some helpful tips of what to do and avoid.
Foreign Objects
Whether you have a curious toddler putting lego, peas, insects in your ears or an adult attempting to scratch an itch in your ears, This page aims to help with you helpful tips and advice on avoiding getting objects in your ears.
Trauma Injury
Your ears are a complex organ including the smallest bones in your body. A sudden knock to the ear or head has the potential to cause long lasting damage especially in sporting activities where your ears are vunerable.