Audiometric test records are retained for the duration of the affected employee's employment. Noise exposure measurement records are kept for two years. Those are different rules and mixing them up is a common finding - discarding…
Audiometric test records are retained for the duration of the affected employee's employment. Noise exposure measurement records are kept for two years. Those are different rules and mixing them up is a common finding - discarding audiograms on a two-year cycle destroys the baselines the whole programme depends on.
Name and job classification, the date, the examiner's name, the date of the last acoustic or exhaustive calibration, and the employee's most recent noise exposure assessment. An audiogram without the calibration date attached is incomplete, and it is the field most often missing when we take over a programme.
Employees and their designated representatives have a right of access to their own records. Requests should be straightforward to satisfy; if retrieving one person's audiometric history takes days of searching, the filing system is the problem and an inspector will find that out the same way.
Records transfer to the successor employer, who must retain them. Hearing conservation records are among the most commonly lost items in an acquisition, and their loss resets every baseline in the workforce - which is unrecoverable. Raise it during diligence, not afterwards.
Primary regulations and standards referenced above. Where a standard is published commercially it is named in full rather than linked to a copy.