Listen up! Protect your hearing from air horns

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.)
• Description:
  Listen Up! Protect Your Hearing from Air Horns. ; To protect your hearing, use ear protection at sporting events - and don't use air horns. ; Sports events like basketball or football games can be exciting, but they're also noisy! And the air horns that blast when your team scores are especially ; loud - loud enough to damage your hearing immediately. ; Being around too much loud noise can make you lose your hearing. And once it's gone, you can't get it back. ; Air horns are no joke! ; Using an air horn to scare someone or get their attention isn't a joke or a harmless prank. It could hurt their hearing forever. And you could hurt your own hearing too! ; DID YOU KNOW? ; • Loudness is measured in what's called decibels (dB). ; • Over time, any sound that's 85 decibels or higher can cause hearing loss - or other hearing problems, like tinnitus (a ringing sound in your ears that won't go away). ; • An air horn is 129 decibels. That's loud enough to cause immediate harm to your ears. ; • The louder a sound is, and the longer you listen to it, the more it can damage your hearing. ; Here's the good news: ; You can protect your hearing from air horns - and still enjoy your favorite sporting events! ; To protect your hearing: ; • Use hearing protection. ; If you're at a game or another event where you might hear air horns, use earplugs or noise-cancelling headphones. ; • Stay away from loud noises. ; Move away from air horns or other loud noises if you can. If you can't get away fast enough, you can also plug your ears with your fingers. ; • Don't use air horns - and encourage your friends not to use them, either. ; You could hurt the hearing of everyone around you. It's not worth it! ; If you need to use air horns, do it outdoors and away from people - never in an enclosed space like a car. Always wear ear protection. ; Publication date from document properties. ; Air-Horn-Fact-Sheet-H.pdf
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• Subjects:
  • Ear Protective Devices
  • Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced
  • Noise
• Document Type:
  Still Image
• Genre:
  Poster ; Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 poster
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/59433/cdc_59433_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.35 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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