2006 Annual Hearing Testing Costs and Schedule
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2006 Annual Hearing Testing Costs and Schedule

1. Purpose: OSHA requires annual audiometric testing of all employee’s that are exposed to hazardous noise for at least 1 day per year.
2. History: Many associates have complained that trailer testing was noisy.
3. Results: 2005 hearing tests were conducted by The HearSafe Group at an improved cost and efficiency over previous vendor. “Quiet” HearSafe testing increased test quality and reduced overall retests and standard threshold shifts. Estimated cost savings = 1501.67 production hours ($65,575.15 SMCD)

Case Study

Recent survey results at an automaker's plant in Ohio prove that The HearSafe Group methods will save time, money and provide more accurate results.

• 2,417 Employee hearing tests
• 3 HearSafe Technicians
• 3 portable testing booths
• 42 hours onsite testing time
• Associate time offline:
  less than 7 min avg.
• Reduced employee time off line
  resulted in savings of $67,656.00
• STS decreased
• Recordable STS decreased
• Employee confidence in test
  process increased 91.4%

A TRENDSETTING SOLUTION
The HearSafe Answer:  Smarter Procedures & Time Proven Methods !

• Technology helps us to be efficient while increasing and ensuring quality hearing test results.
• Notebook computers with sophisticated hearing test tracking software assist us to provide the most complete service possible.
• Portable hearing test booths in an office, break room, conference room, medical room, or other inside location.
• No noisy distractions here.
• Most offices remain professionally quiet at all times.
• Regardless of the outside weather, it is always comfortable where we test!

• Limited loss of Production
• Locating closer to the production floor minimizes wasted walk time to and from the test.
• Each technician can test an average of 25 hearing tests each hour.
• We can supply up to 6 technicians who can produce 150 hearing tests each HOUR !
• A client FAVORITE, we can use a Just in Time flexible schedule to complete hearing testing.
• A client FAVORITE, we are easily accessible via an inside phone extension. If a supervisor wants to “check up” on an associate who has not returned from testing. They simply call us.
• Manual Audiometric Testing
• The highest quality hearing test available.
• Used by every Audiologist in the USA
• High technician qualification requires a licensed or board certified professional to perform your hearing test.
• Human interaction with sophisticated software to ensure high quality and consistent test results 100% of the time!
• No tricking our test !
• No false positive STS !
• Efficiency Personified: We can use Just in Time flexible test schedules
• We test each associate as they arrive!
• The Cycle of J - I - T:
• 1 in the booth being tested
• 1 on the way back to the line
• 1 on the way to our booth to be tested.

Mobile Trailer Testing
Common Problems and Complaints:

• Developed in the early 1980’s and the process hasn’t changed much since. 
• Parked in an outside parking lot where…
• …cars, trucks, planes, trains, people talking, can all be very distracting to those who are trying to complete a hearing test inside the trailer
• …Hot, Cold, Humidity, Wind, Rain, Snow, Day/Night all effect productivity and the quality of hearing testing inside the trailer
• …employees who are waiting outside the trailer are often very noisy and distract those inside the trailer.
• The long walk to the trailer and back to the production line is an incredible waste of employee production time.
• Plant Managers detest the loss of productivity because 6-8-10-12 associates need to be gathered to test at once.
• With 8 associates in the trailer, 8 associates leaving the trailer, 8 associates coming to be tested, as many of 24 associates could be off the production floor for 15-30 minutes.
• Because they are outside the plant it is hard to track the associates who are purposefully not returning to their work station.
• Microprocessor hearing testing is a computerized program that is inflexible.
• Sacrifices quality for ease of use.
• Once the test starts the computer completes a time consuming program that often takes 5-10 minutes to complete.
• If the subject becomes distracted by outside noise the computer continues the test without interruption.
• Low Technician Qualifications – Often the truck driver.
• Just push the button to start the test and wait.
• No human interaction to ensure a quality and consistent hearing response is obtained.
• Rigid scheduling and specific time slots are needed for each “group” of associates
• Increased administrative time needed to prepare for annual testing. 
• Schedule rarely executes as planned and scrambling to fulfill the needs of the trailer makes for a stressful day.

HearSafe Audiometric Testing

We care about what you hear.