A communication failure on a job site, factory floor or other high-traffic work zone can have serious, even life-threatening consequences. Hearing damage, on the...
Entries Tagged Sonetics
Integrated Wireless Communication Delivers Results for Drilling Contractors
Every drilling project presents a unique set of challenges. In order to effectively deal with changing site conditions, maintain safety and meet...
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Productivity: Taking Back Time with Communication
“If we’re saving seconds, we’re saving millions.” A customer said this to me not long ago, and it’s stuck with me. Then...
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Sonetics Announces Third-Generation Wireless Headset Enhancements
Sonetics Corporation, a leader in wireless team communication systems for challenging work environments, announces enhancements to its third generation of Apex Wireless...
Blogs
Combating Objections to Hearing Protection
Sonetics recently received a comment through one of our social media channels that surprised me. In reference to the article about occupational...
Blogs
Recruiting Millennials with Wireless Headsets
There are currently approximately 200,000 construction job openings waiting to be filled, according to the National Association of Homebuilders. Millennials are the...
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Time To Put An End To Two-Way Radio Rentals
There’s a project cost line item that’s in need of an internal audit. Are radio rentals costing you thousands of dollars on...
Blogs
Worker Safety: Resources to Help Avoid the OSHA Top 10
The usual suspects appear on the preliminary list of Fiscal Year 2017 OSHA Top 10 Most Frequently Cited Standards. Except for one. “Electrical –...
Blogs
When Safety Signals Become Background Noise
When you work in a challenging environment — construction work, excavation, tree care and towing, to name a few — one of...
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Of Mind, Body and High Noise Exposure
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...




















