Automate Hearing Loss Prevention

Occupational noise-induced hearing loss is the most common occupational disease in the world, which causes enormous individual suffering and distress.

Existing hearing protection devices (HPDs) (earmuffs and earplugs) rely too much on the end-user to execute individual judgement around frequency and consistency of use. They are often not worn when needed or are incorrectly fitted.

They provide little or no real-time information about the benefit being derived from their adoption. Users have no way of knowing what level of protection they receive or their level of exposure to damaging noise. The first indication that they have not been protected and hearing damage has occurred is during an audiometric examination, by which time it is too late.

Traditional HPDs also fail to provide the safety manager with any meaningful information. With highly mobile end-users often working out of sight in dynamic noise environments, the safety manager has little idea whether PPE is being worn consistently or correctly, or that adequate protection is being maintained.

Recent advances in digital technology can eradicate these and other problems with HPDs but with also with noise risk assessments. Minuendo has automated the hearing loss prevention process, providing end-users with practical real-time guidance on their personal noise exposure that helps them adopt safer behaviours.

This eGuide provides a step-by-step guide to the automation of hearing conservation - an approach that is set to revolutionize occupation health and wellbeing across many high-noise industrial applications.