2025 NHCA Annual Conference

2025 NHCA Annual Conference

We are excited to have you join us for an amazing educational line up, check out the agenda below for the 2025 Conference. Please note that this agenda is subject to change.

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7:30am EST

Breakfast TBA Exhibit Hall TBA Registration TBA

8:30am EST

Poster Session TBA

9:30am EST

The Hearing Protection Optimizing Tool: Eliminating Guesswork in Hearing Protection Selection TBA Personal Attenuation Rating for Self-Inserted Earplugs: Effects of Experience TBA Characterization of Auditory Risk Factors in Impulsive Noise Environments TBA

9:55am EST

Left or right? Level-dependent hearing protectors can alter the sound perception towards the wrong direction TBA Comparison of PAR values obtained from traditional REAT testing and neck-based fit testing for an aviation headset TBA Estimating firearm sound levels conducted via the bone/tissue pathway using accelerometer recordings made with an anatomic head simulator TBA

10:15am EST

Break with Exhibitors TBA

10:45am EST

Subject-Fit Performance of a Dynamic Toroidal Earplug TBA Advancing OSHA Compliance: Mobile Testing, Data Security and Boothless Solutions for the Modern Workforce TBA DuoDose: a body-worn dosimeter for impulse noise environments TBA

11:10am EST

A simple calculation method for assessing the sound exposure from communication devices and earphones TBA No booth? No Problem. Using Boothless Audiometers for H-Con Testing. TBA In-Ear Dosimetry for Continuous and Impulse Noise TBA

11:40am EST

Luncheon Awards TBA

1:10pm EST

Gasaway Lecture: Why is Everything So Loud? TBA

1:40pm EST

HPD Fit Testing: Results from the U.S. National Rapid Surveys System TBA

2:00pm EST

Implementation of Hearing Protector Fit Testing – Insights and Best Practices TBA

2:20pm EST

Hearing Protector Fit Testing, Boothless Audiometry and Ambient Background Noise. TBA

2:40pm EST

Evaluating Personal Attenuation Rating as a Predictor for Risk of Service-related Auditory Injury TBA

3:00pm EST

WAHTS: a Multi-User Hearing Protection Fit Test System with Integrated Education TBA

3:20pm EST

Break with Exhibitors TBA

3:35pm EST

A Quick and REAT-Predictive Leak-and-Attenuation Test Alternative for In-Field Verification of Earplug Quality of Fit TBA

3:55pm EST

Validating hearing aid algorithms for use in digital hearing protectors to improve speech intelligibility in workers with mild to moderate hearing loss TBA

4:15pm EST

Test Method for Evaluating the NIOSH Noise Mapper Application in a Hemi-Anechoic Chamber TBA

4:35pm EST

Measuring and modeling speech intelligibility in listening conditions with level-dependent hearing protection devices TBA

4:55pm EST

General Session: Closing Remarks TBA