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Preparing for Annual OSHA Hearing Conservation Requirements   Annual hearing conservation responsibilities can arrive quickly, especially for organizations managing multiple locations, changing work environments, or seasonal operations. Planning ahead can...

Helping Agencies Modernize Occupational Hearing Programs   Government agencies are responsible for protecting employees who work in environments where hazardous noise is common, including military installations, maintenance facilities, transportation operations,...

How Dr. Laura Coco uses WAHTS in audiology education and community-based research   For many people, the greatest obstacle to hearing care is not a lack of interest in their...

How one Air Force officer and a fleet of portable WAHTS units brought hearing care to an underserved community and changed what is possible for every mission that follows. Hearing...

Bringing Hearing Care to Paraguay: How WAHTS Supported a Humanitarian Mission in Remote Communities When hearing healthcare teams travel to underserved communities, flexibility isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 to Modernize Occupational Hearing Conservation Programs Automated audiometric data transfer improves record integrity, workflow efficiency, and compliance readiness for enterprise occupational...

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...