Mail-In Audiometer Calibration for Kansas Employers

Mail-in calibration for Kansas employers

Foster Special Instruments calibrates audiometers at our bench at 6941 Cornell Road, Suite B, Blue Ash, Ohio 45242, near Cincinnati. You ship the unit to us, we calibrate it to ANSI S3.6, and it comes back to your Kansas location with a calibration certificate for your hearing conservation file.

Kansas packages travel to Cincinnati by ground carrier, and a tracked, insured label is the safe choice. We calibrate most major brands whether or not you bought from us, including Benson, Tremetrics, Maico, GSI, and Welch Allyn / Hill-Rom.

Who we serve in Kansas

Kansas hearing conservation is anchored by aviation manufacturing in Wichita, along with meatpacking, agricultural equipment, and oil and gas service work across the state. Hospitals in Wichita, Topeka, and the Kansas City area run occupational health programs too.

We calibrate for all of these, shipping the audiometer both ways.

OSHA and the audiometer in Kansas

Private employers in Kansas fall under federal OSHA, so 29 CFR 1910.95 is the rule your hearing conservation program is measured against. Audiometer calibration to ANSI S3.6 is the working benchmark, and your certificate is the record that supports it.

In Kansas, as everywhere, OSHA 29 CFR 1910.95(h) ties audiometric testing to audiometers that meet ANSI S3.6. The work happens in layers, and each layer has an owner.

• Daily: your staff listens to the audiometer and tests a person with stable known thresholds. This is the employer's check.
• Annually: an acoustic calibration check. Our bench covers this.
• Every two years: an exhaustive calibration. We perform this as well.

29 CFR 1910.95(h), Appendix E

Packing and shipping your audiometer

Pack the audiometer in its original case or a padded box. Send the headphones, bone vibrator, and response switch that you use with it, because they are calibrated as a set. Include the serial number, your company name, a contact person, and the return address in Kansas.

Use a tracked, insured label for the trip out of Kansas. When the unit is back on your bench, the certificate lists the results, and a reminder goes out before the next due date.

On-site visits and booth testing in Kansas

Because Kansas is far from our Blue Ash shop, mail-in is the practical path for audiometer calibration.

If a booth in Kansas also needs its noise levels measured, call us and we will talk through what a scheduled visit would involve.

A booth in Kansas that is measured on site against ANSI S3.1 gets its result printed as the Room Acoustics Level Test section on the audiometer certificate.

Loaners and other instruments

If your audiometer needs an extensive repair, we lend you a free loaner so your testing keeps going. Programs in Kansas often send other instruments with the audiometer, which saves a second shipment.

• Spirometers and the 3 L syringes used to check them.
• Breath alcohol testers. We calibrate them and train technicians. Foster does not sell or perform drug or alcohol testing.
• Vision testers.
• EKG machines.

Kansas cities we hear from

Mail-in works from every part of Kansas. Cities such as Wichita, Overland Park, Kansas City, Topeka, Olathe, Lawrence, Shawnee, Manhattan, Salina, and Hutchinson are all reachable the same way, and so is any town not on this list. Call 513-891-0868 or see the main audiometer calibration page for the full service.