Here is a non-exhaustive list of tools or activities that when used or performed over prolonged periods without the correct hearing protection could cause hearing problems or industrial deafness:
- 40 ton press
- Bench grinder and finisher
- Braider for electric cable
- Break pad grinder
- Brick oven fan noise control
- Coating pans
- CNC punch press
- Cold cutting circular saw
- Concrete vibrator
- Cyclone separators
- De-palleter
- Elastic yarn covering machine
- Gas burner noise in sand burner
- Hammer mill
- High speed blanking press
- Hydraulic power pack
- Metal cutting guillotine
- Multi-headed grinder
- Notching press
- Pedestal grinder
- Pneumatic exhausts
- Pneumatic transfer systems
- Powder mill
- Power blasting
- Press flywheel
- Reciprocating compressor
- Rubber granulator
- Sand burner
- Sugar beet processing
- Transfer of components using a conveyor and metal chute
