Quick, accurate audiometric testing that takes care of your employee’s health and your businesses legal requirements.
Audiometry testing is a legislative requirement for any working environment where employees have exposure to noise levels that require hearing protection equipment and is an important part of your health surveillance program.
KINNECT’s program – which includes baseline and periodic audiometry testing – ensure that you are meeting your legislative requirements. The program will also identify employees who may have occupational noise-induced hearing loss to ensure early intervention and treatment is provided.
Which Workers Need Audiometric Testing?
Certain industries inherently expose workers to high noise levels, increasing the risk of noise-induced hearing loss. These include:
- Construction: Use of heavy machinery and power tools.
- Manufacturing: Operations involving loud equipment and assembly lines.
- Mining and Energy: Drilling and extraction processes generate sustained high noise levels.
- Transportation: Airports and railways expose workers to constant high-decibel environments.
Employees in these industries need baseline hearing testing, and then periodic audiometric testing to monitor them for symptoms of noise-induced hearing loss.
Legislation
If employees are required to wear hearing protection equipment to protect against noise exposure, then you have obligations under WHS regulations to:
- Ensure that a worker is not exposed to noise that exceeds the exposure standard for noise;
- Provide audiometric testing to monitor employee hearing levels.
More details can be found in Safe Work Australia’s Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work – Model Code of Practice and their Noise Fact Sheet.
For details about the rules in your state, please visit our Occupational Hearing Loss Resource Centre.
Options for Audiometric Testing Delivery
Audiometry Testing in KINNECT Clinics
KINNECT conducts pure tone audiometric testing in professional sound booths in our offices in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
In-clinic testing is recommended for baseline assessments to ensure compliance with current legislation. KINNECT conducts these according to AS/NZ 1269.4 compliant baseline assessments. This means we provide a detailed report that must be kept as part of your OHS documentation.
Onsite Audiometry Testing
KINNECT’s onsite audiometric testing can be conducted conveniently at times that suit your organisation. Please note that KINNECT does not offer mobile audiometric testing; we conduct testing in a quiet environment with specialised equipment.
How Often do Workers Need Audiometric Testing?
The rules depend on the state where you operate. However, employers in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria must provide audiometric testing to workers in noisy workplaces where PPE is required to protect them from exposure to noise above the legislated standard:
- within 3 months of the worker commencing work; and then
- at least once every two years.
Please check our Occupational Hearing Loss Resource Centre for details of the rules in your state.
Health Monitoring Made Easy
Carelever Monitor helps you manage all aspects of your Health Surveillance program from one easy-to-use platform.
KINNECT use Carelever, a cloud-based SaaS platform, to manage your occupational health processes and health data.
The Monitor module allows you to:
- Book a pure tone audiometry for an employee at a KINNECT or affiliated clinic in Australia
- Store the audiometry test data for each employee
- Compare the latest audiometry test results against previous test or baseline test
- Identify employees who are showing a shift in hearing and are at increased risk of occupational induced hearing loss
- Receive notification for the next periodic audiometry test (e.g. 6 months, 12 months or 2 years)
Locations

We can coordinate health surveillance medicals, including asbestos medicals, at one of our KINNECT offices or at one of hundreds of affiliated clinics across Australia. If your candidates are located in a remote location or an area with limited coverage, please contact us so we can identify options in your area.
Should your candidate attend an affiliate clinic, our forms within our proprietary technology platform, Carelever will ensure that all data is quality assured in real time.
Start your audiometric testing program today.
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