NHCA was formed in June of 1976, at that
time designated as the Hearing Conservation Association,
and incorporated in the state of Florida on July 8, 1976.
The organization changed its name to the National Hearing
Conservation Association in 1981. The founders of NHCA
were mainly audiologists and otolaryngologists who were
concerned with the serious problem of noise-induced hearing
impairment resulting from occupational exposure to noise.
The Association was created to provide a forum where
others of similar persuasion could share information
and gain increased insights regarding occupational hearing
conservation.
Today NHCA is composed of audiologists, physicians,
industrial hygienists, safety specialists, engineers,
scientists, occupational health nurses and hearing conservationists,
equipment manufacturers, students, and others, all of
whom are active in hearing conservation. The Association's
vital concern and focus has broadened to not only include
the prevention of hearing loss due to noise and other
environmental factors in the American work force, but
also in the general population. As such, its interests
extend to all situations in which hearing hazard exists,
whether occupational settings in industry and the armed
forces, or non-occupational applications in the consumer
and recreational sectors.
The first officers of the association were: President,
Alan Feldman, Ph.D.; Vice President, Frederic Pullen,
MD; Treasurer, Constance Cabeza, MA; Secretary, Lennon
Adams MS; At Large Members, Don Wolfe, MA, William H.
Call MD.
To better manage a growing organization, NHCA contracted with Association Management
Group of Washington, DC in 1983, and two years later in 1985 changed its management
firm to Association Management Ltd. of Des Moines, Iowa. NHCA incorporated
in Iowa on March 22, 1988. In 1995, NHCA hired Executive Director, Inc. of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin as its management firm. In 1998, NHCA hired Great
Western Association Management Inc. in Denver, Colorado as its new management
firm.
NHCA's first publication was the Hearing Conservation
Newsletter, which was created and published by Don Wolfe.
Volume 1, Issue 1 appeared in the fall of 1976. It was
a small single sheet (four-sided) newsletter which devoted
much of its early editorial space to describing the newly
formed organization which it represented, and to current
events. Over the years the newsletter grew and increased
its scope and content as well as the depth of its articles.
The name changed to NHCA Newsletter (in 1983), to Hearing
Conservation News (in 1987), and then to Spectrum (in
1989).
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