Protect Your Hearing
Avoid Workers Compensation Claims
Soundshield 4G has been specifically designed to provide the highest level ofAcoustic Safety to Contact Centre Headset Users, while maintaining excellentvoice clarity and intelligibility.
Soundshield 4G prevents acoustic shrieks or high pitched tones from reaching the ear of a headset user, by detecting and instantly rejecting these shrieks within 16-32 milliseconds.
Without the protection of Soundshield acoustic shrieks can potentially cause injury known as acoustic shock syndrome. The typical symptoms of Acoustic Shock are:
- Ear-ache and nausea
- Headaches, jaw and neck pain
- Hollow feeling in the ear
- “Fluttering” noise in ear, leading to poor balance
- Burning sensation to face and head
- Tinnitus (ringing in the ear) and hearing degradation over time
- Permanent sensitivity to loud noises in general, thus affecting lifestyle
- Where inner ear membranes have been otherwise weakened (by ear infections or diving trauma), acoustic shock can cause tearing of the inner ear membrane
Long periods of exposure to loud noise can affect the hearing of a telephone headset wearer. Soundshield 4G technologies ensures headset wearers are exposed to a consistently safe level of volume, actively adjusting sound levels to meet the strictest workplace daily noise exposure guidelines. Soundshield 4G is renowned as one of the safest solutions for headset users.
