{"id":220,"date":"2019-07-22T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredericksburgent.fm1.dev\/hearing-loss-your-safety\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T19:22:00","slug":"hearing-loss-your-safety","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hearingresourcecenterllc.com\/hearing-loss\/hearing-loss-your-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Loss & Your Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

People with hearing loss in a higher risk\nof developing a variety of physical, social and psychological complications as\na result of their impairment. They are also less likely to awaken in time to\nescape a house fire should such a disaster occur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trouble with High-Pitched Smoke\nAlarms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since smoke alarms were first made\navailable to the general public in the 1960s, they have saved countless lives.\nFire-related fatalities fell from 10,000 a year to around half that number by\nthe 1990s, spurring readers of R&D\nMagazine<\/em> to rank smoke detectors as one of the \u201c30 Products that Changed\nour Lives.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, those with hearing loss aren\u2019t as likely to benefit from smoke alarms as people with normal hearing. That\u2019s because conventional smoke detectors emit signals in the 3,150-Hz range \u2013 loud enough for those without a hearing impairment. Because hearing loss most often affects the higher frequencies, people with impaired hearing are much less likely to be awakened by them. Those who live alone are, understandably, most at risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waking Effectiveness Studied<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Fire Protection Research Foundation\n(FPRF), a nonprofit group devoted to collecting data on fire and building\nsafety, conducted a study in 2007 to determine how effective smoke alarms are\nin waking up people with impaired hearing. Few fire investigations bother to\nlook into the hearing ability of victims who have perished so data was sketchy.\nThe group\u2019s findings were published in a paper titled Waking Effectiveness of Alarms for Adults Who Are Hard of Hearing. <\/em>According\nto the FPRF, conventional smoke detectors awakened 57 percent of participants.\nLow-pitched smoke alarms that emit signals in the range of 520-Hz, by contrast,\nwoke up 90 percent of test subjects \u2013 and that was at the minimally-acceptable\nfire code sound level of 75 decibels. When these alarms were turned up to 95\ndecibels, every single person in the test was awakened. Low-frequency smoke\ndetectors are not widely available to the general public, but FPRF director\nKathleen Almand is hopeful the study results prompt manufacturers of these\ndevices to develop product alternatives in that frequency range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, if you have a hearing loss, please understand that you have certain rights spelled out in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). When spending the night in a hotel, motel or other public facility that offers sleeping accommodations, you must be provided with effective access to the building\u2019s alarm system. If your facility does not offer that service, you can file a complaint at\u00a0www.ada.gov<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Importance of Wearing Your Hearing\nAids <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In addition\nto helping you hear smoke alarms, wearing your hearing aids can help keep you\nsafer in a number of different environments. Wearing your hearing hearings\nensures you can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Hear the doorbell<\/li>
  • Hear the telephone<\/li>
  • Hear a truck backing up<\/li>
  • Hear an evacuation\nannouncement in a store <\/li>
  • Hear a warning shout-out from\na co-worker or neighbor  <\/li>
  • Hear the sirens of an\nemergency vehicle <\/li>
  • Hear car horns<\/li>
  • Hear an emergency weather\nadvisory <\/li>
  • Hear a forklift in a busy story<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    If you have\nhearing loss and would like more safety tips, feel free to speak to your\nHearing Resource Center audiologist! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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