| Protection against loud noises is very important | | | | provided the solution for the noise as well. |
| within a work environment. | | | | The production of such bulk ear plugs has |
| The industrialization did it. Our world used to be a | | | | become so cheap, because the materials used are |
| quiet place, where occasional noises alerted local | | | | almost similar to foam. The chemical compound is |
| inhabitants that someone or something is coming. | | | | made out of pretty inexpensive materials, |
| Currently, if you live in a city, you can't hear the | | | | therefore disposable industrial ear plugs are sold in |
| doorbell if your TV is blasting, your kid is running | | | | amounts of thousands in huge packages at |
| the stereo on loudspeakers, your window is | | | | bargain prices. Wherever such loud machines are |
| opened and urban noises are seeping in and one | | | | deployed, for instance in food packaging, |
| of your washing or drying machines is running. | | | | automated assembly lines, actually on every |
| Doorknockers are obsolete. Due to all the noise all | | | | location where the constant noise surpasses the |
| around us, it is a wonder that we hear anything | | | | 70dB ratio deemed damaging if imposed for a |
| at all. Imagine now you work in one of the | | | | prolonged amount of time, it is necessary to wear |
| factories, where machines do all the work; | | | | ear protection devices. |
| without industrial ear plugs, you can kiss your | | | | Same goes not only for factories, but for road |
| hearing goodbye. Luckily, the employers are | | | | workers, like the guy with a jack hammer, he |
| required to distribute bulk ear plugs to their | | | | needs to wear industrial ear plugs or even |
| employees. | | | | stronger hearing protection devices by law. If you |
| But it was not an easy win for the near deaf | | | | are a passerby, walking next to a place where |
| employees. It required a dozen of class action | | | | the road is being fixed, and you do not have bulk |
| lawsuits to impose the regulation on the penny | | | | ear plugs handy, it's just your bad luck if your |
| pinching boards of directors, who in their comfy | | | | hearing gets damaged. Interestingly enough, in |
| chairs upstairs did not have a noise problem and if | | | | music business, there is no obligation for the |
| they did, they sound proofed the offices. Who | | | | employer to supply hearing protection devices for |
| cares about the peasants getting deaf? Well, the | | | | any of the employed personnel. Although roadies |
| courts did and therefore nowadays the law | | | | and stage crew can be subject to terribly loud |
| requires the distribution of bulk ear plugs, for | | | | music and other sounds, like feedback, if they did |
| hearing protection purposes. These industrial ear | | | | not have the good sense of picking up some |
| plugs are really good and the development of | | | | protection on their own, it will be their own fault if |
| hearing protection devices has gone a long way, | | | | they go deaf. This will change in the foreseeable |
| since the usage of wax to block the ear canal | | | | future, because some major lawsuits are |
| was the only option. On one hand, the | | | | underway. |
| industrialization provided the noise, on the other, it | | | | |