Corporate Health Fairs & Employee Hearing Screenings

Hearing loss is the third most common chronic health condition in the American workforce, yet it is one of the easiest conditions to overlook at a typical wellness event. Blood pressure gets a cuff, cholesterol gets a finger-stick, and hearing gets skipped — usually because the average health-fair vendor list doesn’t include an audiology practice. Hearing Aid Factory Outlet fills that gap for employers throughout Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County and the greater Atlanta area, bringing a licensed hearing-health station to corporate wellness events, employee health fairs and workplace hearing-screening days.

Led by Gwen Cantrell, BC-HIS, CDP — a board-certified hearing instrument specialist appointed by Governor Brian Kemp to Georgia’s State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology, and Hearing Aid Dispensing, and a five-time Best of Gwinnett winner (2021–2025) in the Audiology Practice category — our team brings genuine clinical credibility to a corporate event, not just a folding table and a bowl of hard candy.

Why Employee Hearing Screenings Belong at a Health Fair

Nearly 15% of American adults report some degree of hearing difficulty, and the number climbs steadily with age and with years of occupational noise exposure. Many employees have no idea they’ve lost hearing ground until it starts affecting meetings, phone calls, safety communication or family life at home. A quick, no-pressure screening station at a health fair often catches these early changes years before an employee would otherwise think to schedule an appointment on their own.

For employers, that early identification has real value. Undiagnosed hearing loss is linked to increased miscommunication on the job, slower response to safety alerts and instructions, and greater difficulty participating fully in meetings and training. Addressing it early, in a low-key wellness-event setting, tends to get far more participation than asking employees to book a separate appointment on their own initiative.

What a Corporate Health Fair Station Includes

• Employee hearing screenings — brief, non-invasive screenings that flag whether a complete hearing evaluation is worth scheduling
• Hearing-conservation education — plain-language information on noise exposure, hearing protection and early warning signs
• Communication and hearing-health information for employees, not just those who suspect a problem
• Hearing-protection guidance for employees in louder work environments or with noisy hobbies
• Technology demonstrations, including current-generation devices like Starkey Omega AI, Phonak Audéo Infinio Ultra Sphere and Signia Integrated Xperience (IX), so employees can see and hear what modern hearing aids actually do
• Referral recommendations for anyone who screens as a candidate for a full diagnostic evaluation

General Wellness Fair vs. Formal OSHA Hearing Conservation Testing

It’s worth being clear about the difference between the two, because employers sometimes conflate them. A corporate health-fair hearing station is a wellness and education service — it’s designed to inform and screen, not to satisfy a regulatory testing requirement. A formal OSHA hearing-conservation program is a different animal entirely, governed by 29 CFR 1910.95, and it applies whenever worker noise exposure reaches or exceeds an 85-decibel, 8-hour time-weighted average. That standard requires baseline and annual audiograms administered under specific conditions, employee training, noise monitoring, hearing-protection provisions, and recordkeeping that must be produced to OSHA or employees on request within 15 working days.

If your organization needs baseline audiograms, annual testing, or standard threshold shift (STS) monitoring for noise-exposed employees, that’s a job for our mobile audiometric testing program, not a health-fair booth. Many employers actually use both: a general wellness-fair screening event open to the whole workforce, paired with a separate, more rigorous mobile testing day for employees in noise-exposed roles. Tell us which situation you’re in and we’ll help you figure out the right format — we would rather point you toward the correct program than have you discover the difference after an inspection.

Who Requests These Events

• Manufacturing, warehousing, distribution and logistics employers with wellness or safety-day programming
• Corporate offices and headquarters running annual employee benefits or wellness fairs
• Municipal and county government employers, including public-works and public-safety departments
• Healthcare systems and medical office wellness days
• Human-resources and benefits teams building out a broader employee wellness calendar
• Employers with an existing hearing-conservation program who want to add an annual education and screening component

What a Typical Event Day Looks Like

Most corporate health-fair participation runs two to four hours, timed around shift changes, lunch breaks or a scheduled all-hands wellness day. We set up a private or semi-private screening station — away from the noise of the main fair floor whenever possible, since a genuine hearing screening needs a reasonably quiet environment to be meaningful. Employees rotate through in a few minutes each: a short conversation about hearing history and any concerns, a screening, and a plain-language explanation of the results. Anyone who screens outside the expected range receives a straightforward recommendation for a complete evaluation, with no pressure and no on-the-spot sales pitch. Employees who don’t need follow-up leave with useful hearing-health information regardless.

Benefits for Employers

• Higher wellness-fair engagement — a hearing station is a novel addition most employees haven’t seen at a health fair before, which tends to draw traffic to the whole event
• Early identification of hearing changes before they affect job performance, safety communication or workplace relationships
• Practical hearing-protection education for employees in louder roles, even outside a formal conservation program
• No cost or complexity added to HR’s plate — we bring the equipment, staffing and materials
• A credible, board-certified presence employees recognize and trust, rather than an unfamiliar vendor booth

Signs a Screening Might Be Worth Adding to Your Wellness Fair

HR and safety teams don’t need to diagnose hearing loss to know it’s worth screening for. A few practical signals tend to show up before anyone officially raises a concern:

• Employees frequently asking coworkers to repeat themselves in meetings or on calls
• Complaints about background noise making conference calls or open-office conversations hard to follow
• Safety-briefing feedback suggesting instructions or alarms are being missed or misheard
• A workforce with meaningful tenure in roles with historical noise exposure — production floors, warehouses, fleet or equipment operation
• An aging workforce approaching or past age 50, where age-related hearing changes become more common
• Employees who’ve mentioned hearing aids, tinnitus, or hearing concerns informally to HR or a supervisor

None of these require a formal complaint or accommodation request to justify offering a screening — they’re simply reasons a wellness-fair hearing station tends to get used.

Noise-Related vs. Age-Related Hearing Changes

Employers sometimes assume hearing screenings only matter for workers in loud environments, but that’s only part of the picture. Age-related hearing loss, or presbycusis, is the most common cause of hearing loss in adults generally, and it develops gradually enough that most people don’t notice it happening to themselves. It shows up in office workforces and production floors alike. Noise-induced hearing loss, by contrast, is fully preventable and tied directly to unprotected exposure — equipment, machinery, engines, firearms, or even a workforce with a lot of live-music or motorsports hobbies outside of work. A corporate screening event doesn’t need to sort out which cause applies on the spot; it simply flags that something is worth a closer look, and a complete evaluation sorts out the rest.

Building Hearing Health Into an Existing Wellness Calendar

Most of the employers who request a hearing station already run an annual or semiannual wellness fair with blood pressure, vision, dental or biometric screening partners. Adding a hearing component is usually the easiest addition on the list — it doesn’t require blood draws, fasting, or additional paperwork, and it fits into the same time slot as the rest of the event. Some employers prefer a standalone hearing-awareness day instead, particularly manufacturing and logistics employers who already run a hearing-conservation program and want an annual refresher event that goes beyond the legally required minimum. Either format works, and we’ll help you figure out which one fits your existing wellness programming rather than asking you to build something new around us.

Serving Gwinnett County and Metro Atlanta Employers

From our Lawrenceville location inside Sugarloaf Mills, we regularly support employers throughout Gwinnett County and the wider Metro Atlanta area — Lawrenceville, Duluth, Suwanee, Snellville, Buford, Lilburn and neighboring communities, along with selected employers further into the metro area. Being a local, independent practice means scheduling decisions happen with our own team, not a national call center working through a multi-state calendar, which tends to make last-minute date changes and smaller events far easier to accommodate.

Planning a Corporate Event

When you request a date, share the workplace location, estimated attendance, available space, shift schedule and whether you’re looking for a general wellness-fair format, a dedicated employee screening event, or a formal occupational hearing-conservation testing program. We’ll also want to know whether electricity, tables and a reasonably quiet room or corner are available, since that affects how many employees we can screen per hour.

Submitting a request doesn’t guarantee a confirmed date — we review service area, staffing, event format and schedule before confirming, the same way we would for any clinical service. Larger employers and events with a firm annual date on the calendar should reach out several weeks ahead; smaller or more flexible requests can often be accommodated with shorter notice.

Why Gwinnett-Area Employers Choose Hearing Aid Factory Outlet

As a family-owned, independent hearing practice based inside Sugarloaf Mills in Lawrenceville, we don’t operate like a national testing conglomerate that treats every employer as an interchangeable account. Gwen Cantrell’s board appointment, her practice’s five consecutive Best of Gwinnett wins, and the fact that we’re open seven days a week give Gwinnett and Metro Atlanta employers a local, accountable partner for hearing-health programming — not a call center in another state. Trinity Cantrell Brummett, a licensed hearing instrument specialist, and Jaelyn Brummett round out a team that treats a corporate health fair with the same clinical care as an in-office appointment.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is a corporate health-fair screening the same as an OSHA-required hearing test?
No. A health-fair screening is a wellness and education service. If your workforce needs baseline or annual audiograms under a formal hearing-conservation program, see our mobile audiometric testing page.

How long does a screening take per employee?
Typically just a few minutes, which is why most events can move a large number of employees through in a two- to four-hour window.

Do you provide referrals if an employee needs a full evaluation?
Yes. Anyone who screens outside the expected range receives a plain-language recommendation to schedule a complete diagnostic evaluation, with no pressure at the event itself.

Can you combine a wellness-fair screening with formal OSHA testing on the same visit?
Sometimes, if scheduled and organized in advance. Tell us your full situation when requesting a date and we’ll help you plan the most efficient combination.

What space do you need at our event?
Ideally a semi-private area away from the loudest part of the fair floor, with a table, chairs and access to electricity. We’ll work with whatever space is realistically available.

Do you serve employers outside Gwinnett County?
Yes, selected locations throughout the greater Atlanta area, depending on event size, staffing and travel.

Is there a minimum number of employees required?
No set minimum. Smaller offices and larger distribution centers are both common — share your estimated attendance and we’ll help you plan the right format.

How do we request a date?
Send your workplace location, estimated attendance, available space, schedule and event type using the request form below, or call our office directly.