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For over thirty years, Doctor Robert A. Bertrand,
MD, specialist in neuro-otology, has devoted himself to occupational
medicine and hearing preservation in the work environment.
In 1976, he and his associates began offering professional
services to industry. He was named director of the Hearing
Conservation Program for the Quebec Mining Association (QMA)
in 1977. Tasked with developing an effective Hearing Conservation
Program, Dr Bertrand and his associates set about finding ways
to determine whether the Hearing Loss was work-related or due
to some other causal factor. The pro-active approach they developed
was so effective that 15 years later, the number of claims
associated with occupational noise-induced hearing loss (ONIHL)
decreased by 50%, resulting in significantly reduced compensation
costs to the Quebec Mining industry. Recognized by his peers,
Dr. Bertrand was retained as a consultant in 1986 to the CSST
(Quebec’s Worker’s Compensation Board) to evaluate
new standards for compensation of ONIHL which were then implemented
in 1987.
Always in sync with the latest technologies,
Dr. Bertrand marketed his data-processing approach to audiometric
screening test management with the unique software product,
Corti®. In 1998 he joined leagues with Dr. Daniel L. Johnson,
Ph.D., to create Bertrand-Johnson Acoustics Inc.(BJA), consolidating
their collective expertise and R&D activities in the field
of Hearing Conservation. BJA’s mission is firmly founded
in acoustical research and the prevention of ONIHL. In 2005,
Ninon Bertrand, who has worked with Dr. Bertrand for over 30
years, assumed the title of President of BJA, Inc. so that
Dr. Bertrand may devote himself entirely to research and development
along with his renowned statistician, Jean Zeidan, M.Sc.(stat).
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