How to Wear Soft Foam Earplugs

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  To get the best protection from your soft foam earplugs, remember toroll,pull,andholdwhen putting them in. Use clean hands to keep from getting dirt andgerms into your ears! 1.Rollthe earplug up into a small, thin "snake" withyour fingers. You can use one or both hands. 2.Pullthe top of your ear up and back with youropposite hand to straighten out your ear canal.The rolled-up earplug should slide right in. 3.Holdthe earplug in with your finger. Count to 20 or30 out loud while waiting for the plug toexpand and fill the ear canal. Your voice willsound muffled when the plug has made agood seal. Check the fitwhen you're all done. Most of the foam body of the earplug shouldbe within the ear canal. Try cupping your hands tightly over your ears. If soundsare much more muffled with your hands in place, the earplug may not be sealingproperly. Take the earplug out and try again. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Ear Hearing Mining Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Safety Sense Organs
• Keywords:
  Ear-protection Ear-protectors Hearing-conservation Hearing-protection Mining-industry Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Moving Image
• Genre:
  Videorecording
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042099
• Citation:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2003 Mar; :Video
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  How to wear soft foam earplugs
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227527/cdc_227527_DS1.pdf
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