WAHTS Blog, News & Research
Beyond the Booth: A Clinician’s Guide to Today’s Occupational Hearing Testing Options
Hearing conservation has quietly become one of the most-cited OSHA programs in U.S. industry. The standard, 29 CFR 1910.95, hasn’t changed in decades, but how clinicians and EHS teams actually...
Test It. Store It. Review It. Done. How Dr. Sarah Mouser Built a Modern Hearing Conservation Practice Around WAHTS
Hearing conservation has a workflow problem. Open-room testing fails because of ambient noise. Booths solve the noise problem, but they won’t travel. Mobile vans travel, but they bring liability, scheduling...
How Medcor Transformed Hearing Testing with WAHTS
For organizations overseeing occupational health across multiple locations, hearing testing has long been a logistical hurdle. Balancing the scheduling of mobile vans, managing on-site booths, and minimizing operational disruption, traditional...
Hearing Conservation at the Edge: How WAHTS Powers Audiometric Testing in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
On a remote island in Alaska, where flights are unreliable, weather determines schedules, and fishing factories operate around the clock, hearing conservation looks very different from the rest of the...
New Research Shows Personal Attenuation Rating Can Predict Hearing Risk Before Damage Occurs
Hearing conservation programs have long relied on lagging indicators. Audiograms and Significant Threshold Shifts (STS) confirm hearing damage after it has already occurred. They do not identify risk before permanent...
How Fuyao Glass America Scaled Hearing Conservation Without Slowing Down Production
At Fuyao Glass America, hearing conservation isn’t a once-a-year obligation. It’s an everyday operational reality. The company operates one of the largest automotive glass manufacturing facilities in the world. With...
How WAHTS Enabled 277 Airmen to Be Tested in Three Days at Malmstrom AFB
When Air Force Global Strike Command faced rising hearing conservation demands following the expansion of total-force requirements, traditional booth-based testing workflows were no longer sufficient. At Malmstrom AFB, the challenge...
WAHTS Hearing and Enterprise Health Announce Direct API Integration
WAHTS Hearing and Enterprise Health Announce Direct API Integration to Modernize Occupational Hearing Conservation Programs Automated audiometric data transfer improves record integrity, workflow efficiency, and compliance readiness for enterprise occupational...
A New Standard for Boothless Audiometry: What the Latest Military Medicine Study Means for Hearing Conservation
For decades, traditional booth-based audiometry has shaped how hearing thresholds are assessed. The model worked well when clinicians, sound booths, and service members were all in the same location at...
From Booths to Break Rooms: TVTC’s Scalable Hearing Testing with WAHTS
When it comes to hearing conservation, logistical issues often hinder compliance. That’s a challenge Shayne Hill and her team at the Tennessee Valley Training Center (TVTC) were all too familiar...
Making Hearing Health Heard: WAHTS & ATA Bring Hearing Tests to the Music Industry
In the music industry, hearing isn’t just necessary — it’s everything. Musicians, sound engineers, and crew members rely on their ears as their most valuable tool. Yet hearing loss often...
NOAA Takes Hearing Conservation to Sea with WAHTS
How shipboard hearing tests are helping a federal fleet model what’s possible for maritime services The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration runs some of the most remote missions in the...
How Martin Technical Brought Mobile Hearing Testing In-House with WAHTS
A Fresh Start in Hearing Conservation For Martin Technical, Inc., safety isn’t just about compliance; it’s about delivering more innovative and more effective ways to protect industrial workers. While Martin...
From Clinics to the Field: Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine Uses WAHTS for Research Without Walls
When most people think of hearing tests, they picture a booth, a soundproof room, and a patient wearing headphones while tones beep softly in their ears. But what if none...