YOUR PERSONAL SOLUTION

To Noise Pollution

Sound Suppressers

The uses of personal sound suppressers or ear plugs is a highly effective means of limiting exposure to noise. They suppress or attenuate both impulse and continuous noise. They can also make noisy situations more tolerable and reduce noise generated stress, fatigue, and irritability. Sound suppressers can also help prevent hearing loss.

Why Sound Waves™?

Eartronix provides a unique line of personal sound suppressers. They are custom-made for the ear. These custom-made ear plugs provide users with a comfortable, custom fit.
Sound Waves™ have an NRR (noise reduction rating) of twenty-eight (28). This rating was obtained by submitting Sound Waves™ to attenuation test at an independent laboratory.
Sound Waves™ are made of Poly Sheer II™, a proprietary material, that provides a tight seal and helps keep out loud unwanted sounds. A cast (model) of each ear is stored, so that replacements of sound suppressers can be quickly and conveniently made, without the need for new impressions.

Noise... noise... noise                                                

Noise is a fact of modern life. It is ever present in cities, pollutes rural landscapes, and has even invaded the once quiet home front. Noise can be annoying and distracting. It can prove harmful to your health and well-being.

Noise Can Be Bad For Your Health
Exposure to noise has numerous negative effects:

· Irritability

· Fatigue

· Stress

· Heightened blood pressure

· Sleeplessness

· Decreased productivity on the job

· Tinnitus (continual ringing in the ears)

· Hearing loss

Continued exposure to noise creates physical and psychological stress. It can reduce on -the-job performance, affect relationships, and increase irritability. Noise can also quicken the pulse rate, raise breathing rates, and increase blood pressure. Noise can be painful and damage your hearing.

A one-time exposure to extremely loud sounds (gun shots) and repeated or continuous exposure to high intensity noise can cause a temporary hearing loss, or even worse, a permanent hearing loss.

Noise can damage the hair cells in the inner ear. Once damaged, they can no longer signal the auditory nerve to send sounds to the brain. Hearing becomes impaired. The onset of a hearing loss is often gradual, and the loss is often unrecognized until it becomes difficult to follow conversations, understand speech in noisy places, or hear the television and radio.

  Current federal noise regulations limit worker exposure to 85dB (decibels) of noise on the job. Time limits are set for on the job exposure to noise. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has further criteria that noise levels should not exceed 115dB. ISO (International Standards Organization) controls noise exposure down through 80 dB.

Who is at risk?                                                

On the job, numerous workers are confronted with loud and potentially harmful noises. Among those workers especially at risk are equipment and machinery operators, police officers, factory workers, firefighters, farmers, musicians, computer personnel, and construction workers. Sportsmen and women can also be at risk, when flying small planes, shooting guns, riding motorcycles, operating jet skis or snow mobiles, playing amplified musical instruments, or driving off-road vehicles. At home, potentially bothersome or harmful noise levels can be generated by garden equipment, power tools, stereos, and boom boxes.

The Sound Waves™ Sound Suppressers Program

Many Designer Colors - Fluorescence, Brights, Pastels, Mosaics™, Starbursts™, Mardi Gras™, Confetti™, Neutrals, Blues, Green, Pink, Yellow, Orange, Red, Purple, Black, and Brown. Ask for any newly available colors.

MOSAICS: a new designer line of earmold colors has been created by Pacific Coast Laboratories through their unique processing system, earplugs are filled with an array of color chips from their base line of (25) colors.

STARBURST: are almost as limitless in colors as your imagination. Begin with a base of clear or white Poly-Sheer and choose up to(4) colors from the (25) base colors to make up your personalized custom earplug.

MADI GRAS: Mardi Gras Mosiacs have a bright, bold color palette of black, red, blue, green, florescent hot pink and purple.

CONFETTI: Confetti Mosaics have a dazzling fun-filled spectrum of teal and florescent colors including magenta, lime, green, orange and yellow.
Mosiacs are available in all earplugs styles.
A color key page is provided in this site to show you the true colors, so that you may visually choose your colors.

Personalized with Initials (Optional) - Initials can be embedded in the swim plugs. The initials can help identify the owner of lost plugs or sort out multiplugs. This is a very valuable feature for children.

Color-Coded Cords (Optional) - Prevents loss, ensure continuous wear.

Vents (Optional) - Customized venting can facilitate communication: telephone, and conversation. The use of vents will change attenuation.

Replacement - Should one or more plugs become lost, they can easily and quickly be replaced. EARTRONIX has your plugs made to the exact specifications of your ears and stores the cast of each ear for three (3) years, eliminating the need to obtain a new ear impression.

Identification Card - Each set of plugs includes a laminated identification card for use in obtaining plug replacement.

Carrying Case - Each set of plugs includes a carrying case.

Noise reduction rating (NRR) of twenty-eight (28).