Wearing hearing protection in high noise prevents noise damage to your hearing. Use ear plugs, ear muffs, or both, when in high noise.
Audiograms are one of the tools health care providers use to identify a hearing loss.
Below are sample audiograms, showing one example of a normal audiogram, as well as an example of an audiogram demonstrating hearing loss from noise exposure. Note how the damage from noise is most noticeable in the highest frequencies. How You Can Protect It. The human ear is a well-tuned machine. Then the signals don't reach the brain and we can't perceive those sounds.