Category: Navy

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Position Announcement

Audiologist, Department of the Navy, Agency: Naval Medical Command
Number of Job Opportunities & Location(s): 1
Vacancies – Bremerton, Washington

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Audiologist Position Available

Now advertising for an audiologist with the Department of Navy located at Pearl Harbor, HI.

Duties include and not limited to the following:

• Organizing audiology services including the hearing conservation program in an audiology clinic.
• Assessing hearing and communicative function by using modern diagnostic audiology techniques.
• Teaching courses to certify others to become audiometric/hearing conservation technicians.
• Eliminating or minimizing fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement and/or unfavorable public opinion from the work place.
• Training hearing conservation personnel in techniques of hearing assessment, calibration and noise measurement in both formal session and on-the-job training situations.

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Equipment Noise is Accelerating Hearing Loss

In September 2007, a US Navy officer working with the Marines’ executive safety board issued a simple, stark warning. According to a presentation by CDR Stan Jossell, the Marines–and to some extent the services in general–are buying new equipment that is so loud that it’s not a matter of whether but when and how badly operators will suffer permanent hearing damage. Jossell noted, moreover, that the technology to protect users from damage does not yet exist.

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