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Links & Resources:
As safety professionals and healthcare providers dedicated to preventing hearing loss in the workplace, it is important for each of us to stay informed on the latest updates within the hearing conservation arena. AudioAssessor©’s Links & Resources serve to help keep you abreast of the latest industry guidelines & updates, recent research findings pertaining to hearing loss and advances in hearing protective devices. This page contains a link to the regulatory standard (1910.95), articles pertaining to hearing conservation, links to training courses for audiometric technicians and more. If you have an article that you think the rest of the hearing conservation community would benefit from, send it to us here!

Regulatory Links:
• Hearing Conservation Standard
• OSHA’s Overview of Hearing Conservation

Audiometric Technician Training Courses:
• Hearing Conservation / Audiometric Technician Initial Training
• Hearing Conservation / Audiometric Technician Refresher Training

Audiological Organizations:
• National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA)
• National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH)

Hearing Conservation Articles:
• Hearing PPE: What Dreams Are Made Of (Occupational Health & Safety Magazine)
• Newsweek: Now Hear This
• Hearing Protector Device Compendium
• Cost-Effective Use of Computer Technologies in EHS Management
• Protection for the Next Generation (Occupational Health & Safety Magazine)

Additional Resources:
• Work Relatedness Determination Questionnaire: MS-Word (599KB)   PDF (65KB)
• Audiogram Form (2 per page)