For tradespeople, high noise exposure is a way of life. According to the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise, 22 million...
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Why It Pays to Invest in Wireless Headsets
For Rochester Asphalt’s Royal Johnson, communicating with his crew had become an exercise in frustration.Hear how he solved the problem with Sonetics wireless...
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Improving Hearing Protection for NW Natural
Construction and public works crews need to know where gas lines are before digging, drilling, pile driving, bulldozing or performing any other...
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Preventing Trench Collapse and Caught-In Incidents
Trench collapse (or cave-in) and caught-in (or caught-between) incidents occur too often. In 2014, 39 workers perished in caught-in incidents. Between 2000...
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7 Signs Your Crew Needs to Improve Communication
Communication turns a group of workers into an organized crew. Ever since our cave-dwelling ancestors started using hand signals and birdcalls to...
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5 $20 Billion-Plus Public Works Mega Megaprojects
In the first part of this series, I mentioned five mega megaprojects with budgets in the $10 billion to $20 billion range....
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7 Ways Sonetics Customers Use Wireless Communication
The combination of wireless communication and hearing protection comes in handy just about everywhere outside of a cubicle farm. Come to think...
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5 Global Public Works Mega Megaprojects
The global infrastructure market totaled $3.1 trillion in 2016 and is expected to hit $4.2 trillion by 2020. Within that market are some public...
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How it Works: Hearing Protection
Voice communication only works if you can hear it. To create the most effective wireless communication system available for workers in challenging,...
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How It Works: Connecting Two-Way Radios and Bluetooth Devices
This is the age of mobility. With smartphones, laptops, email and Wi-Fi everywhere, it’s as easy to work remotely as it is to...
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5 Tools for Job Site Safety
The world is getting serious about job site safety. Advancements in technology, rising awareness and increased regulatory enforcement are just some of...
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When Safety Signals Become Background Noise
When you work in a challenging environment — construction and factory work, farming, septic pumping or towing, to name a few —...
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7 Signs Your Crew Needs Better Communication
Ever since our cave-dwelling ancestors started using hand signals and birdcalls to corner a mammoth, we’ve been trying to perfect communication to...
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Hear What’s Important
Walt Logan, from Dig This Heavy Equipment Playground, has been running heavy equipment since the mid-1960s and knows that communication is important...





















