Passive hearing protectors remove the surrounding sounds, eg alarms and warning signals, this can effectively decrease safety in certain work situations.

Local permits normal comprehension of surrounding sounds. Sensitive microphones catch the surrounding sound with full stereo effect. At a low noise level weak sounds are amplified and at high noise levels sounds is limited to 80 dB(A) through the electronics.

In many situations there could be several teams in an area and need for teamleaders of supervisors to communicate with each team.

Local makes it possible to easily communicate and instruct each team without disturbing the others, simply by changing between channels. As long as all in each teams are within the range of the built-in tranceivers, then the numbers of users in each group is in theory unlimited.

Local is a radio for medium distance communication. Using the very latest high technology circuitry Local now makes it possible to effectively and clearly communcate at distances up to approximately 2 kilometres (433/1 kilometre).

Range will always be dependent on topography, however, the frequency band used on the Local is relatively insensitive to the screening effect of steel and concrete. For longer distances we recommend Regional or Global.

The Local headset is equipped with a unique single button which allows the wearer to make all changes between VOX (low, medium or high) /PTT and channel, without compromising the hearing protection.

With one and the same button you can make all necessary changes and a voice will tell you either what selection you have made, or as a check, it will tell you what mode and channel you have selected.