Archive of Older Newsletters
- Treatment of negative threshold values
- Taking ownership of your hearing loss prevention program
- Dual hearing protection does not double attenuation
- Don't believe everything you read
- Determination requests for those exposed to less than 85 dB TWA
- Best practice: timely logging of Recordable shift events
- Court limits recordkeeping violations to 6 months
- Bureau of Labor Statistics hearing loss statistics
- Auricle replacement surgical advancements
- OSHA reiterates work-relatedness determination guidelines
- Medical referral explained
- 10 dB STS and potential Recordables defined
- Hearing loss may increase falls
- Occupationally related determinations for non-noise-exposed employees
- Headsets for hearing impaired
- Extended shifts increase TWA
- MyTKGroup report summary
- Tinnitus
- Recordable criteria
- Selecting protectors to fit ear canal
- Smartphone sound level meter apps
- Occupationally related determinations for the non-noise-exposed
- Presbycusis vs. noise-induced loss
- Hearing loss impairs sleep
- E-A-Rfit earplug fit testing
- Year-end audits
- OSHA withdraws proposed rules change
- Baseline revisions for rehires
- Must employer pay for medical referrals?
- Pulsed vs. continuous tones
- Tinnitus
- Medical referral advisories
- Keep dosimetry up-to-date
- Recordables don't affect baselines
- Delayed shift persistence
- OSHA plans to increase inspections
- Custom earplugs
- Hearing protection at motorsports
- Who to include in conservation program
- Organic solvents and hearing loss
- Noise-induced loss statistics by demographic
- Timely logging of Recordables
- Genetic Information and Nondiscrimination Act
- Occupational determination follow-up
- Get your audit checklist
- Individual Audiometric Record report explained
- Health concerns over wind turbines
- Understanding dual hearing protection
- Avoid OSHA 300 Log citations
- Understanding the Program Summary Report: Section V
- New NRR scheme
- Always retest STSs
- MyTKGroup introduction
- Hearing loss statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
- OSHA disallows baseline revision after ownership change
- New reporting format explained in detail
- FAQs concerning hearing programs
- Recheck/Refit procedure
- Pre-employment testing
- NIOSH fact sheet
- T K Group change of address
- Audiologist role in work-relatedness determinations
- iPod volume safeguards
- Why thorough extended questionnaires matter
- Repealed recordable paired with confirmed STS
- Test the 8K frequency
- FDA warning on hearing loss and impotency drugs
- 2007_newsletter_2nd.pdf
- Determination for marginally exposed workers
- Does presbycusis cease at 60?
- How to handle test refusals
- Importance of STSs
- Age correction and Individual Summary reports
- Issues with clinic testing
- Effects of impulse noise
- FRA rules changes
- Why a year-end audit matters
- Persistence vs. non-persistence
- Recordable follow-up actions
- Occupational noise exposure risk levels
- How to fill out OSHA 300 Log
- Hearing loss and iPods
- New determinations required for new Recordables
- Aspirin may reduce hearing loss from aminoglycosides
- Noise exposure may increase risk of schwannoma
- Always retest an STS
- Baseline revision discrepancies
- Central auditory processing disorders
