Noah tested 31 Whitetail Homes workers on site in Abbotsford, covered by WorkSafeBC's Construction Industry Program.
Whitetail Homes is a residential home builder in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Framing, finishing and site crews work around saws, nail guns and heavy equipment — the kind of noise exposure that brings a crew into WorkSafeBC's annual hearing testing requirement.
Residential builders rarely have everyone in one place. Crews are spread across build sites, and pulling 31 workers off the tools to sit in a clinic waiting room costs a day of production on every one of them.
Whitetail Homes needed annual hearing tests done without that, and wanted to know what it would cost.
Clear Work brought mobile hearing testing to Whitetail Homes in Abbotsford.
For a residential builder, the win is not just avoiding clinic trips — it is that the testing fits around a crew that is never all in one place at one time.
Whitetail Homes has booked Clear Work again for February.
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Construction companies in WorkSafeBC classification units starting with 72 may pay nothing per worker under the Construction Industry Program. Clear Work is registered with the program, and the Whitetail Homes testing was covered by it. You can check your coverage in 30 seconds.
Yes, where there is room to set up. Our mobile unit fits a standard parking stall and needs no power hook-up, so the crew is tested where they are already working.
About 10 minutes. Workers come through in small groups, so the site keeps running.
We come back. Residential crews move between sites, so a second visit for the workers who were missed is normal rather than a problem.
An initial test within 6 months of starting work, then at least every 12 months, for workers exposed above 85 dBA Lex or a 140 dBC peak.