Twenty-five Langley workers tested in two hours, funded through the Construction Industry Program.
Orion Construction is a British Columbia construction company. Clear Work tests their crews on site on an ongoing basis, including visits in Langley and Surrey.
Usually workers go off site to a clinic one at a time, and each loses most of a working day.
Across a 25-person crew that is a serious hit to a tight schedule, so Orion Construction needed testing done without standing the site down.
Our technician arrived at Orion's Langley site with calibrated audiometric equipment and set up on location.
Orion's classification unit falls under WorkSafeBC's Construction Industry Program. The testing was already paid for through the assessments they pay to WorkSafeBC every year.
Related: hearing testing in Langley and workplace hearing testing across BC.
The headline number is not 25 workers or two hours. It is five visits.
Orion have booked us five times and rebooked for December before we had packed up. For any BC construction employer: are you paying a clinic for tests your WorkSafeBC assessments already cover?
If your classification unit falls under the Construction Industry Program, annual hearing testing is covered through the assessments you already pay to WorkSafeBC. As a WorkSafeBC-Authorized Industrial Audiometric Business, Clear Work bills WorkSafeBC directly, so eligible employers get no invoice from us, and we can confirm eligibility before you book.
At Orion's Langley site we tested 25 workers in two hours. Workers come through a few at a time, so the rest of the crew keeps working.
Employers must provide annual hearing tests for workers exposed at or above the noise exposure limits, under Part 7 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. See our WorkSafeBC hearing testing requirements page for a plain-language guide.