Tag: audiometric testing

It’s National Protect Your Hearing Month—How’s Your Hearing Conservation Program?

By EHS Daily Advisor Staff Oct 7, 2019 Injuries and Illness

Updated: Oct 7, 2019

October is National Protect Your Hearing Month! In workplaces where noise levels exceed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) action level of 85 A-weighted decibels (dBA) as a time-weighted average, employers must put a hearing conservation program in place. In addition to reducing noise levels and noise exposures, selecting appropriate hearing protection, audiometric testing, […]

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A Couple of Hearing Protection Questions to Wrap Up the Month

By EHS Daily Advisor Staff Oct 31, 2018 EHS Management

Updated: Oct 31, 2018

October has been National Protect Your Hearing Month, and our experts at Safety.BLR.com® have been busy answering subscribers’ questions about hearing conservation. We’ve selected a couple for our EHS Daily Advisor readers—where does an office employee fit into a hearing conservation program, and what happens when an employee refuses to take a baseline audiometric test?