HAVS in the Real World: When Vibration Exposure Ends Careers
A recent HSE prosecution has highlighted the very real and devastating impact of Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). An NHS Trust was fined £40,000 after several employees developed serious and irreversible hand-arm vibration-related conditions, including HAVS and...
Overprotection and Hearing Safety – the hidden risks
Hearing protection is a vital control measure in noisy workplaces, but over-protection is an often-overlooked risk in hearing safety. Using hearing protection that blocks too much sound can be just as problematic as not providing enough protection at all....
Skin health at Work – Your Staff’s Last Layer of Protection
Occupational and workplace skin health is a challenge that many employers underestimate, not because it’s unimportant, but because it’s complicated. Everyone’s skin is different. Everyone’s skin is important. One person might tolerate frequent handwashing or...
The HAVS Iceberg – Why Vibration Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Individual Protection
Across industries, vibration monitoring has come a long way. Tools fitted with vibration counters and smart sensors can now track exposure levels with impressive accuracy, giving employers valuable insight into how much vibration a worker is exposed to. But here’s the...
Who’s Right About My Hearing?
Who is best to see after a hearing test referral? And why do occupational health results say something different to audiologist or GP advice?
Going Bananas with Health Wizard at Work
Every Health Wizard hearing test report includes the speech banana. What does this mean and why do we bother? Were any bananas harmed?
Why Hearing Tests at Work Matter: New HSE Guidelines and GP Involvement
Why do organisations do hearing tests? How have the latest regs (L108) changed? What does that mean for your organisation?
Hidden Noise: 5 Ways it Matters in Your Organisation
The health implications of hidden noise affect all organisations. Here are 5 ways hidden noise matters to your staff, colleagues and health
How to use Health Wizard at Work to Support In-House Occupational Health Testing
Some Health Wizard at Work clients who could do their own surveillance tests in-house choose to work with us. Here’s why.
Introducing Health Wizard – lower cost, easier health tests at work
Like many great products, Health Wizard at Work came about as we tried to solve a problem that had been bugging us for many years. The result is a quality health test system for the workplace that is easier, faster and uniquely flexible to the needs of all organisations.
About Health Wizard at Work
Frustrated that getting a decent hearing test is a major barrier to hearing health awareness – especially in the workplace, Health Wizard at Work’s founder co-founded the world’s first user-operated calibrated hearing test and surveillance audiometry solution for the workplace in 2018.
Health Wizard at Work is the next generation platform, advancing the original concept to the next level with an all-new software stack, more robust online delivery and security, adaptive reporting and as many languages as you can throw a stick at.
Starting with Hearing Wizard - the most advanced way to make hearing screening more accessible - Health Wizard at Work offers occupational health, health and safety, HR and general managers more tests and a simpler way to collect health data from any cohort of people, anywhere, at any time of day, in any language.
Health Wizard at Work testing is accurate, fully audited and followed up instantaneously with results and advice. Users test themselves in any suitably quiet environment, improving access to screening, whilst also reducing disruption and opportunity costs associated with taking staff off task.
Health Wizard at Work is a Pay As You Go service, priced per test or per period, offering flexibility and control without CAPEX, on-costs or responsibility.
