Hearing Protection

[forddieseldoctor]

Kind of curious as to what is happening across the industry for hearing protection. I personally wear ear plugs just about all day every day. I have noticed that most of my co-workers don't seem to care about the importance of hearing protection. 

[8WA Sman]

I wear them whenever necessary. Mostly Howard Leight Impart Sport,they also work for a microphone when trying to find certain noises.

[Steve Mutter]

I just started wearing hearing protection in the last ten years full time. I switched to using a headphone style so its easier take them off to talk to people.

[JoeR]

I'm 58 years old and attended a wedding this weekend with a bunch of fellow techs.  It was funny, but kinda not funny, how all of us had the same problem of not being able to hold a conversation if there was high background noise.  Ages ranged from 40 to 60 but we all had the same type of hearing loss.  

Protect your ears, Gents.  If not you'll be the guy sitting in the restaurant wondering what everyone else at the table is talking about.

Joe  

[forddieseldoctor]

7 hours ago, JoeR said:

I'm 58 years old and attended a wedding this weekend with a bunch of fellow techs.  It was funny, but kinda not funny, how all of us had the same problem of not being able to hold a conversation if there was high background noise.  Ages ranged from 40 to 60 but we all had the same type of hearing loss.  

Protect your ears, Gents.  If not you'll be the guy sitting in the restaurant wondering what everyone else at the table is talking about.

Joe  

Sad to say… I’m already there. And I’m only 37. Doesn’t bother me too much as I’m usually fairly anti-social. But it pisses my wife off to no end. 

[jimmy57]

It is odd that I have that same group chat issue but can hear a fork dropped across the restaurant and hear bearing noise and squeaking belts. I worked with young guys that had hearing loss too. They could hear a service advisor writing up a brake job but were deaf for a driveabiity or overnight battery drain customer conversation.