Nationwide Health Testing for Compliance with OSHA

Now a part of Examinetics, Inc.

  Audiometry

Hearing Testing:  Industrial Health offers on-site audiometry (hearing testing) using specially designed mobile testing units which will come to your plant site anywhere in the contiguous United States.  We have provided these services to major industrial clients since 1973 and we have developed procedures and systems to achieve accurate and repeatable testing results from year to year.

• Accuracy - Testing is done by experienced technicians who specialize in audiometric testing.
• Separate Booths - Testing is done in separate, fully enclosed sound isolation booths.
• Professional Supervision - All testing is directed and reviewed by our full-time staff audiologist.
• User Friendly Reports - Industrial Health's reports are easy to understand and use.
• Reliability - Industrial Health has provided nationwide hearing test services for over 27 years.
• Value Pricing - Industrial Health provides excellent value for your hearing test dollar.

Medical Review:  Industrial Health provides full review of all audio tests performed.  All test results are sent to our headquarters in Palo Alto, CA for review by our full-time staff audiologist.  Even with the best audiometers and highly trained technicians hearing tests can be faulty (about .3% of tests done).  Even microprocessor audiometers can not detect whether hearing loss is due to noise exposure or caused by other factors such as illness or injury.  Our audiologist reviews all audio tests that fall outside of specified limits so invalid audiograms can be detected or medical referrals can be made.

Hearing Conservation:  The purpose of a hearing conservation program is to protect the hearing of workers exposed to noise through the use of hearing protection (ear plugs and ear muffs).  This combined with monitoring the effectiveness of the hearing protection through a continuing program of periodic hearing testing.

Hearing Conservation Training:  Employees can be given hearing conservation training at the time of their annual hearing test.  Industrial Health has developed a video for this purpose which can be shown to employees prior to testing.  English or Spanish audio is individually available to each employee.  This training fulfills OSHA requirements for annual training of employees exposed to noise.

STS Detection and Training:  Employees who show an OSHA standard threshold shift (STS) can be identified at the time of their annual hearing test.  They will be re-tested to verify the STS finding.  If an STS is verified they can be given training and counseling to meet OSHA requirements regarding their STS.

Reporting:  Our report formats are custom designed to be easy to use as well as to satisfy OSHA requirements.  A Management Action Report is generated for each site tested.  It lists all employees tested and their hearing class, trend, medical referral (if any) and OSHA standard threshold shifts (STS) or shifts that must be recorded on OSHA logs.  To make it easy for management to take appropriate action this report also has action listings of those employees who fall into categories such as medical referrals, hearing loss, STS shift, STS Log shifts, and Industrial Health's hearing trend calculation.

Industrial Health provides complete services for compliance with OSHA regulation 1910.95 Occupational Noise Exposure

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