Blog - Workplace assessments

A workplace assessment provides advice and recommendations on how to manage deafness and hearing loss at work. Here’s a roundup of our top 10 most frequently asked questions: 1. Are workplace assessments available during the COVID-19 pandemic? Yes, as we’ve developed a remote version of our popular face-to-face service which can help people working in an office or working from home. Where there’s no other alternative, we’ll consider a face-to-face assessment within specific guidelines. 2. Who carries out the assessment? Our workplace assessors...

Working from home looks set to be part of many people’s lives for some time to come. For employees who are deaf or have hearing loss, remote working can be stressful and exhausting without the right support in place. That’s why we’ve introduced remote workplace assessments. What is a remote workplace assessment? A specialist assessor will contact your employee by phone or video call to discuss their job role and working environment in order to identify any challenges they’re facing. The...