When Is Audiometric Testing Required in Queensland?
Audiometric testing helps monitor a worker’s hearing and identify changes that may be associated with exposure to hazardous workplace noise. Since 29 July 2025, Queensland employers and other persons conducting a business or undertaking must provide audiometric testing when a worker is required to wear hearing protection because workplace noise exceeds the applicable exposure standard. […]
How Mobile Workplace Testing Reduces Downtime and Disruption
Sending employees away from the workplace for individual testing appointments can create unnecessary travel, scheduling difficulties and lost productive time. Mobile workplace testing brings essential services directly to your site, allowing workers to complete their appointments efficiently before returning to their normal duties. Testing Scheduled Around Your Operations Onsite Testing can coordinate audiometric testing, respirator […]
Signs Your Workplace May Have a Hazardous Noise Problem
Hazardous noise is not always obvious. Exposure can build over time, particularly where workers move between noisy equipment, machinery, vehicles and work areas throughout a shift. Recognising the early warning signs can help employers identify when a professional workplace noise assessment may be needed. Workers Need to Raise Their Voices A practical warning sign is […]
Why PPE Should Not Be Your Only Workplace Noise Control
Earplugs and earmuffs play an important role in protecting workers from hazardous noise. However, hearing protection should not be the only measure used to manage noise exposure in the workplace. Personal protective equipment does not remove the noise hazard. It only reduces the amount of noise reaching the individual worker, and its effectiveness depends on […]
What Is Included in a Workplace Noise Assessment Report?
A workplace noise assessment report provides more than a collection of decibel readings. It brings together noise measurements, workplace observations and information about how work is performed to help employers understand where noise risks may exist, which workers or work groups may be affected and what practical actions can be considered to better manage exposure. […]
Now Servicing Workplaces in Regional and Remote Queensland
Queensland businesses do not operate only in major cities. Many industrial, agricultural, mining, construction, processing and infrastructure workplaces are based in regional centres or remote locations where accessing reliable workplace testing can be more difficult. Onsite Testing is expanding its mobile workplace testing services across regional and remote Queensland, helping employers access professional audiometric testing, […]
When is Audiometric Testing Required for Workers?
We are regularly asked if audiometric testing is required and although not always the case, as a general guide, if workers require hearing protection, they most likely require audiometric testing under the changes to the Queensland Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 that came in to effect on 29/07/2025. Under the Work Health and Safety […]
Ear Today, Gone Tomorrow
When we think of noisy workplaces, construction sites, factories, traffic control and mining come to mind. In these industries, hearing PPE is often part of the uniform, and the risks of noise-induced hearing loss are well recognised. But the data tells us workplace noise risk extends far beyond these sectors. In the auto industry, one […]
Hearing Damage: The Unseen Workplace Hazard
Research from Hearing Australia shows that 11% of Australians have experienced hearing damage caused by workplace noise; and between 2015 and 2022, almost 30,000 workers compensation claims were lodged for hearing loss. The reality of noise-induced hearing loss? It’s permanent It often goes unnoticed until it’s too late It’s preventable with the right controls With new mandatory audiometric […]