What biomedical equipment services does Occupational Mobile Diagnostics provide?

We provide preventive maintenance, corrective repair, calibration, electrical safety inspection, and isolated power system (IPS) testing for hospitals, surgery centers, and clinics.

Are your biomedical technicians certified?

Yes. Our BMETs are certified and our work follows Joint Commission, CMS, and NFPA 99 standards so your facility stays survey-ready.

How fast can you respond to an equipment failure?

We offer scheduled preventive maintenance plus priority on-call service to minimize downtime on critical medical equipment.

Do you help with regulatory compliance and documentation?

We do. Every service includes the documentation you need for Joint Commission, CMS, and NFPA 99 surveys.

How do I request service or a quote?

Call (424) 204-2382 or email info@occupationalmobilediagnostics.com and our team will schedule an assessment.

What employer medical-surveillance exams do you provide on-site?

Spirometry, audiometry, respirator medical evaluation and fit testing, and the B-reader chest X-ray required under OSHA's silica standards — all performed by qualified staff at your worksite.

How are ototoxicants changing hearing conservation in 2026?

Roughly 22 million workers have been exposed to ototoxic chemicals that can damage hearing and compound noise. Where solvents and noise share a workspace, the annual audiogram is best read as part of a combined-exposure picture.

Is there a regulatory change to hearing-loss testing underway?

Yes. In June 2026 the Department of Labor opened a comment period on how occupational hearing loss is tested, weighing the pure-tone audiogram against objective methods, with comments due October 22, 2026.

Occupational Mobile Diagnostics | Industrial Health Screening Services

Worker health screening at the factory gate.

Occupational Mobile Diagnostics brings OSHA-compliant medical surveillance to factories, warehouses, distribution centers, and ports. Our flagship boothless audiometric testing for hearing conservation, plus respiratory screening, heavy metal labs, heat illness prevention, and physicals — deployed on-site, auditable, fast.

Educational

OSHA's 2026 Focus on Engineered-Stone Silica Raises the Surveillance Bar

OSHA's 2026 enforcement emphasis under the crystalline-silica standards (1910.1053 and 1926.1153) centers on high-exposure trigger tasks, with particular attention to engineered stone containing more than 0.1% crystalline silica. Fabrication and finishing of those materials produce some of the highest airborne concentrations in the workplace, and the agency has made clear it is watching them.

For employers, the compliance backbone is medical surveillance: an exam offered at no cost, at a reasonable time and place, to every worker required to wear a respirator for 30 or more days a year, performed by a PLHCP and including spirometry and a B-reader chest X-ray. The baseline is due within 30 days of assignment unless a qualifying exam was done in the prior three years.

Meeting that duty across a distributed or shift-based workforce is where mobile screening earns its keep — the exam comes to the worksite, and the records come back audit-ready.

The X-ray cadence is where employers most often drift out of compliance without noticing. Under 29 CFR 1926.1153 the chest radiograph is a single posteroanterior projection at full inspiration, recorded on film of no less than 14 × 17 inches and no more than 16 × 17 inches or on a digital radiography system, and it is required at the initial examination and every three years thereafter — not annually, and not 'when we get around to it'. The baseline examination must be made available within 30 days of initial assignment unless the worker has had a qualifying examination within the previous three years.

Spirometry has its own specification, and it is unforgiving of shortcuts. The pulmonary function test must report forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in one second and the FEV1/FVC ratio, and it must be administered by a spirometry technician holding a current certificate from a NIOSH-approved course. Neither of these obligations is discharged by handing a worker a clinic address and hoping. Bringing the certified technician, the calibrated spirometer and the compliant radiography to the site is how a distributed workforce actually gets examined rather than merely scheduled.

Sources: OSHA — 1910.1053; OSHA — Medical Screening & Surveillance; OSHA 29 CFR 1926.1153; OSHA 1926.1153 App B

August 2, 20268 min read

Informative

Ototoxicants and Noise: Hearing Conservation as a Combined Exposure

Hearing conservation has traditionally been framed as a noise problem, but 2026 surveillance keeps widening the frame. Roughly 13% of workers — about 22 million people — have been exposed to ototoxic chemicals such as certain solvents and metals that can damage hearing on their own and amplify the effect of noise when the two occur together.

That has practical consequences for a surveillance program. Where solvents and noise share a workspace, an annual audiogram is better read as one signal in a combined-exposure picture, and the Department of Labor's mid-2026 request for input on hearing-loss testing methods suggests the measurement question is itself under active review. The steady state remains ANSI S3.6-calibrated audiometry and a baseline-plus-annual cadence once exposures reach 85 dBA.

The scale is larger than most safety programs assume. NIOSH puts the number of U.S. workers exposed to hazardous noise at roughly 27 million a year and the number exposed to ototoxic chemicals at about 22 million, and estimates that about one in nine people in the working population already has hearing difficulty — with one in 13 reporting tinnitus. Occupational hearing loss is one of the most common work-related illnesses in the country, it is permanent, and NIOSH is emphatic that it is also nearly always preventable. Every one of those adjectives is an argument for testing sooner rather than later.

The programme requirements have not moved while the science has. A hearing conservation program is triggered at an eight-hour time-weighted average of 85 dBA; the baseline audiogram is due within six months of first exposure at that level, or within one year where a mobile audiometric testing unit is used; testing is annual thereafter and at no cost to the worker; audiograms are retained for the duration of employment and exposure measurements for at least two years. Testing must be performed by an audiologist, otolaryngologist or other physician, or by a CAOHC-certified technician or one who has demonstrated equivalent competence.

Where solvents and noise share a floor, read the two together. Toluene, styrene, xylene, carbon disulphide and certain metals are among the agents associated with ototoxicity, and a threshold shift in a worker exposed to both is not automatically a noise finding. Recording the chemical inventory alongside the audiometric record — and giving the reviewing professional both — costs nothing and changes how a standard threshold shift is interpreted. It is also, in our experience, the single most-overlooked line in an otherwise well-run hearing conservation program.

Sources: U.S. DOL / OWCP — 2026 RFI; OSHA — Medical Surveillance; NIOSH — Occupational Hearing Loss; OSHA 29 CFR 1910.95

July 26, 20266 min read

Field Notes

Field Notes: Keeping Spirometry Honest in a Mobile Unit

Spirometry is unusually sensitive to its surroundings. Because it measures the volume and flow of exhaled air, temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity all move the readings — which is why standardized protocols call for BTPS correction and routine verification against a known-volume syringe.

Those corrections stop being theoretical the moment the unit is working out of a hot trailer at altitude. The field rule is simple and non-negotiable: re-verify instruments in the environment where testing actually happens, log the conditions, and repeat the check whenever they change materially. Run several sites at once and the same procedure applies to every unit, so results stay comparable and auditable.

Technique is the other half, and it is the half that fails quietly. An acceptable manoeuvre needs a good start with minimal hesitation, no cough in the first second, no glottic closure, no leak at the mouthpiece and no early termination — and the session needs enough acceptable efforts to demonstrate repeatability. A technician who coaches hard and rejects a poor effort produces lower headline numbers and far better data; a technician who accepts everything produces a tidy spreadsheet full of noise. This is precisely why the standard names a NIOSH-approved course rather than 'someone trained'.

Longitudinal comparability is the point of the whole exercise. A single spirogram tells you very little; the same worker's trend over five years tells you a great deal, and it only works if the instrument, the corrections and the technique were consistent across those five years. So we log the syringe verification, the ambient conditions and the BTPS correction with every session, keep the same protocol across every unit in the fleet, and hand back records that a reviewing physician can actually compare. Audit-ready is a by-product; interpretable is the goal.

Sources: OSHA — Medical Screening & Surveillance; OSHA 1926.1153 App B

July 19, 20265 min read

The Occupational Mobile Diagnostics difference

We combine real expertise with genuine care — and we make it easy to say yes. We bring OSHA-compliant medical surveillance to the worksite: certified spirometry, compliant chest radiography, audiometry with monitored ambient conditions, and records a reviewing physician can actually compare year over year. Here is what you can expect when you work with Occupational Mobile Diagnostics.