How the Noise Braker Helps Industry

Hocks Noise Braker® is preferred

by employers and employees

• Contains an acoustical chamber which reduces all

  sound to approximately speech level

• Permits the wearer to hear and carry on conversation at all times without removing or adjusting the unit, while protecting hearing

• Earplugs can be worn continuously without discomfort

• Ear channel is not blocked

• Made of soft material that can be cleaned easily

• Change of elevation will not bother wearer

• Instead of plugging or sealing the ear, Hocks Noise Brakers® are designed to allow air and sound up to 80 dB to enter

• Have no mechanical or electronic parts to move, wear out, or injure the ear

• Surveys show that more than 60% of workers using Hocks Noise Brakers® take them home for use for recreational and home maintenance activities

Protecting Ears, On & Off the Job

Compensation awarded to employees

for hearing loss and tinnitus due to noise

exposure is growing at an alarming rate

Surveys show that over 60% of industrial users of Hocks Noise Brakers® wear them off the job while operating chain saws, lawn mowers, tillers, shop equipment, boats, cars, motorcycles, aircraft, snowmobiles, while shooting, attending concerts, and participating in other recreational pursuits.

Many workers are exposed to more noise off the job than on the job.

This is important to industry because, when employees are working in a noisy area, they can only be required to wear ear defense while on the job.

Unless they are comfortable and satisfied with the ear protection, they will not wear the hearing protection off the job and any loss will accrue to the employer's liability.