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Making It Safe and Simple To Connect
Effective Communication in the noisest enironments
Industry Sector:
Glass Manufacture
Application:
Noisy Environments
Actual Saving:
Productivity increase of 15%
Payback period:
Immediate
Product/Service:
- Safety equipment
- Industrial MRO
- Health and safety compliance
Customer Benefits:
- Health and safety compliance
- Improved communication
- Producitivity savings
- Efficiency improvements
- Enhanced situational awareness
As well as being a potential hazard to health, high levels of noise can also threaten productivity in the workplace.
As site supervisors will know only too well, the ability to communicate regularly on site is essential in industries which are often dominated by high noise.
Challenge
All too often non-compliance can be seen with workers removing their ear protection to talk to colleagues. Alternatively, workers may withdraw themselves from noisy areas every time they want to have a conversation. Over the course of a big project, you can imagine how much time can be lost. Improving hearing safety and compliance was exactly what a large UK glass manufacturer wanted to achieve when they reached out to ERIKS and 3M.
Solution
ERIKS Industrial MRO & Safety specialists proposed 3M™ PELTOR™ WS™ Litecom Plus communication headsets. Regarded as ‘the next generation protective communication solution,’ these innovative headsets are designed with an integrated, pre-programmed analogue two-way radio, Bluetooth® multipoint connectivity, noise cancelling microphone, and level dependent function for ambient listening.
The combination of these features not only helps to protect users from hazardous noise, but provides easy and clear communication in excessively noisy industrial environments, whilst also increasing situational awareness.
Effective outdoor communication
Result
Designed for use around loud machinery
Feedback from the glass manufacturer suggested improvements on production and positive impacts across the factory floor, commenting: “These headsets have been very useful for us, and have become an integral part of our day-to-day operations.
“We operate in a very noisy environment, and find that these headsets significantly improve our communication. Our site is on the larger scale, and they allow us to clearly speak with other engineers in any part of the factory, which not only increases our level of communication, but also mitigates many other risks associated with health and safety.”
