Ontario’s Workers’ Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) Policy Change-What They Got Right and What They Got Wrong…

Dr. Marshall Chasin explains that while the Canadian Academy of Audiology commends Ontario’s WSIB for correctly removing an unscientific age-subtraction policy for older workers, the organization strongly criticizes the new policy for maintaining an unfounded emphasis on “audiometric notches” and failing to explicitly cover professional musicians despite decades of proof that musical environments routinely exceed safe noise thresholds.