2025 NHCA Annual Conference: Venues

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.

TBA

7:30am • Breakfast
7:30am • Registration
7:30am • Exhibit Hall
8:30am • Poster Session
9:30am • Personal Attenuation Rating for Self-Inserted Earplugs: Effects of Experience
9:30am • Characterization of Auditory Risk Factors in Impulsive Noise Environments
9:30am • The Hearing Protection Optimizing Tool: Eliminating Guesswork in Hearing Protection Selection
9:55am • Comparison of PAR values obtained from traditional REAT testing and neck-based fit testing for an aviation headset
9:55am • Estimating firearm sound levels conducted via the bone/tissue pathway using accelerometer recordings made with an anatomic head simulator
9:55am • Left or right? Level-dependent hearing protectors can alter the sound perception towards the wrong direction
10:15am • Break with Exhibitors
10:45am • Advancing OSHA Compliance: Mobile Testing, Data Security and Boothless Solutions for the Modern Workforce
10:45am • DuoDose: a body-worn dosimeter for impulse noise environments
10:45am • Subject-Fit Performance of a Dynamic Toroidal Earplug
11:10am • No booth? No Problem. Using Boothless Audiometers for H-Con Testing.
11:10am • In-Ear Dosimetry for Continuous and Impulse Noise
11:10am • A simple calculation method for assessing the sound exposure from communication devices and earphones
11:40am • Luncheon Awards
1:10pm • Gasaway Lecture: Why is Everything So Loud?
1:40pm • HPD Fit Testing: Results from the U.S. National Rapid Surveys System
2:00pm • Implementation of Hearing Protector Fit Testing – Insights and Best Practices
2:20pm • Hearing Protector Fit Testing, Boothless Audiometry and Ambient Background Noise.
2:40pm • Evaluating Personal Attenuation Rating as a Predictor for Risk of Service-related Auditory Injury
3:00pm • WAHTS: a Multi-User Hearing Protection Fit Test System with Integrated Education
3:20pm • Break with Exhibitors
3:35pm • A Quick and REAT-Predictive Leak-and-Attenuation Test Alternative for In-Field Verification of Earplug Quality of Fit
3:55pm • Validating hearing aid algorithms for use in digital hearing protectors to improve speech intelligibility in workers with mild to moderate hearing loss
4:15pm • Test Method for Evaluating the NIOSH Noise Mapper Application in a Hemi-Anechoic Chamber
4:35pm • Measuring and modeling speech intelligibility in listening conditions with level-dependent hearing protection devices
4:55pm • General Session: Closing Remarks