How To Wear Foam Earplugs

To keep you safe here are tips on how to fit earplugs correctly.

How to wear foam earplugs. Theyre not called disposable for nothing. Do you really want that to be absorbed by the skin in your ear canal. Earplugs are generally safe.

Soft foam earplugs are the most common types. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Institute for. You can use one or both hands.

Honeywell Howard Leight provides shooting. Take steps to lower your risk of noise-induced hearing loss. Most foam earplugs are disposable but there are ways to clean them and make them.

When you dont wear the pieces correctly you allow noise to leak in which puts you at the risk of suffering from noise-induced hearing loss. We often use foam earplugs to protect our ears from harmful loud noise dust water intrusion excessive wind and foreign bodies. And if you dont put them in correctly you arent actually protecting yourself or getting the advertised decibel reduction.

Wearing a 20dB earplug in a noise environment of 100dB results in 80dB sound in your ears. This frequency of use prompts people to just throw foam earplugs away. Unfortunately many shooting enthusiasts dont follow the manufacturers instructions on the packaging and fail to insert foam earplugs correctly.

Fitting in soft foam earplugs. Foam earplugs are a fantastic and inexpensive way to protect your hearing but many people dont know how to use them properly. In the video above I demonstrate the proper way to insert and remove foam earplugs safely and effectively.