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Volume 7

Reverse Alarms on Vehicles: Which One is Better?

Reverse (or back up) alarms are mandatory on most heavy vehicles. Such alarms must be well designed and properly installed to be effective (clearly audible and elicit sufficient reaction from workers or pedestrians near reversing vehicles), without being excessively loud to the point of creating noise annoyance in the community.

An Innovative Clinical Placement in a First Nations Community

This article describes a hearing screening pilot project carried out in November-December 2019 in partnership with the Eenchokay Birchstick School (EBS) located in the Pikangikum First Nations Reserve (Ontario).

Volume 6

Performing Audiological Fitness for Duty Assessments for Jobs with Essential Hearing-Critical Tasks

Courtesy our friends at AAA, we give you the second part of a two-part article detailing an objective way of characterizing real-world noise environments in terms of their impact of effective speech communication.

Changing the Audiological Mindset about Fitness for Duty Assessments for Jobs with Essential Hearing-Critical Tasks

Courtesy our friends at AAA, we give you the first part of a two-part article introducing an objective way of characterizing real-world noise environments in terms of their impact of effective speech communication.