Custom Industrial Ear Plugs

The hearing protection on your PPE register is not the hearing protection your people are wearing. Every safety manager knows this and very few registers reflect it.

Disposable foam is issued, worn for an hour, worked loose, and pushed back in badly or left out. The attenuation on the box was measured in a laboratory on a correctly inserted plug. What your workers are actually getting is a fraction of it, and you have no way to prove otherwise.

Custom-moulded industrial earplugs close that gap. They are made from an impression of each worker's ear, so the seal is exact, repeatable and requires no technique.

What you get

• Class 3, 4 and 5 protectors, selected against your measured noise exposure rather than issued at maximum by default.
• AS/NZS 1270 compliance, with documentation for your WHS records and audits.
• Fit testing using an SI meter, which measures sound pressure inside and outside the canal while the plug is worn — turning "issued" into "verified" on your file.
• Communication options. Elacin RC connects to two-way radio and phone, removing the most common reason a plug comes out mid-shift.
• Individually labelled sets, plus grips and cords to suit helmets and reduce losses.
• 30 day fit warranty and a 5 year extended warranty.

Why over-protection is its own hazard

This gets missed. Issuing Class 5 to everyone looks conservative and is not. A worker who cannot hear a reversing alarm, a spotter's call or a change in machine noise is less safe, not more — and they will lift a plug to compensate.

Matching the class to the measured exposure is the correct approach, and it is what we will recommend when we assess your site.

How a rollout works

1. Assessment. We talk through your noise data, workforce and environments. Book a call to start.

2. On-site impressions. Our fitters come to your site or depot and work through the crew in one visit — about 15 minutes per person — including regional and remote operations. No lost time sending people to appointments.

3. Manufacture. 10 to 15 working days from receipt of impressions.

4. Delivery and fit check. Sets arrive labelled per worker. Fit testing verifies the seal.

5. New starters. We arrange appointments with partnered audiologists near your new employee, produce the set and send it to site.

The financial case

Compare a year of disposables across your whole headcount, plus the claims exposure of protection that is not performing, against one custom set per worker that lasts years. Our cost saving calculator runs it on your numbers.

Do you handle procurement paperwork?

Yes. See our client procurement brief for supplier details, or request a quote.

What about impressions for staff who leave?

We keep impressions digitally for two years, so replacements within that window skip the appointment.

Start here

Request a quote, browse industrial hearing protection, or call 1300 425 496.