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I'm with you on the product management story here, but I've had hearing aids fail and no dismemberment occurred.

as with all medical equipment, your experience may not represent the experience of all who need hearing aids.

I use hearing aids, and without them, my workplace turns into a death zone.

Think about people working in public transportation with hearing disabilities.

Imagine if you are working in an Amazon warehouse where your hearing aid fails and you can't hear a mechanized forklift coming through, or you can't hear announcements pertaining to safety.

Even at regular office, I can't hear fire alarms without hearing aids so literally, if the hearing aids fail, and there are no flash alerts or smoke alerts, I'll just keep working through a fire alarm. Thankfully flash alerts are regulated and mandatory.

I maintain that if your workplace is this dangerous, your hearing aids aren't the problem. That mechanized forklift should have warning lights and safety cutoffs. It's extremely common for industrial workers to be wearing huge amounts of hearing protection; relying on audio for survival in the workplace is almost guaranteed to be an OSHA violation in one way or another.

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