1.Earplugs will not block out ALL sound, look for attenuating or full blocking
earplugs depending on your environment.
2. It is physically impossible to achieve “absolute silence”; sound is also
transmitted to the eardrum by bone-conduction
3. Custom fit are not necessarily always the best; but certainly the most comfortable
durable and discrete.
4. We can supply earplugs for almost all applications including swimming, shooting,
industrial, aviation, sleeping, music lovers and more.
5. We list over 50 different types of earplugs mostly for sound, but others include,
pressure balancing earplugs: which stop pain during aircraft cabin-pressure
variations and other specialised earplugs not found anywhere else.
6. Never share earplugs: it can promote ear infection.
7. Earplugs are advised if your workplace exceeds 80dB and mandatory if the sound
exceeds 85dB or above. Visit the government website Health & Safety Executive for
further info and current legislation
8. The process of ear impressions for custom fit earplugs does not hurt. Please read
our Audiology section where it is fully explained. If you need impressions made, we
have access to a network of Audiologists across the UK and we can arrange
appointments for you.
9. Tinnitus is not curable through conventional medical practice. There are therapies
and management regimes that will help to control it’s effect.
10. If the sound reaches 120 dB you can still suffer hearing damage even with the
best earplugs in the world. So beware.
Please Note: One person in in seven in the UK have a hearing problem with
increasing numbers of young people presenting with problems. A statement from
Deafness Research UK: The deterioration of the ear which accompanies ageing still
leaves more than half of all people over the age of 60 with a hearing impairment,
and an increasing number of young people have their hearing permanently
damaged through exposure to loud noise: usually music.

Glastonbury is in a couple of weeks and the festival season is in full swing. Don’t get an acoustic hangover, the sound can reach 110dB, that is seriously loud. It is like listening to a jet engine taking off, for longer than 15 mins it can cause serious hearing damage. The small hair sensors in your ear canal get damaged, amphibians and birds can grow them back but not humans, once it’s gone it has definitely gone.

Follow this link to the RNID’s “Don’t lose Music Campaign” a press release and some worrying stats Ultimate summer hangover threatens festival music lovers

 If your taking the kids? 100% make sure they are protected, Earplugs and Muffs for Children

Of course protect yourself, try our Acoustic earplugs, they are great and a hearing saver. You wouldn’t forget your toilet roll, rain coat, hat, probably wellies, so don’t forget the Earplugs!! Check them here

Interesting article on BBC TV Local News about bar staff in Weymouth having to wear earplugs. See the clip on this link “Earplugs for Bar Staff”