Although prevention has been the mantra in occupational hearing conservation programs over the years, the hoped-for results have not been realized. Despite years of regulation, hours of training, and ...

Despite more than 30 years of regulatory advances and ever-increasing awareness of the danger, noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) continues to be one of the leading preventable occupational injuries in ...

Dominic Peter Power works for the University of Melbourne Audiology Clinic, which provides custom made ear plugs. “Never put anything smaller than your elbow into your ear” is something we’ve been ...

The first time I used ear plugs, I thought I’d reached nirvana. I was trying to study in my college dorm room while my roommate blasted the Grateful Dead so loudly it would have made Jerry Garcia’s ...