How Lipreading Improves Your Workplace Safety

1. Your employees are not hearing their best when there is background noise from machinery & equipment. Their hearing protection is IMPORTANT and necessary so how are you ensuring communication is flowing well from person to person?

2. Watching a speaker's facial movements and lips can significantly improve our ability to comprehend words, especially in noisy environments. Improving communication between employees can improve your safety outcomes and reduce the risk of accidents.

3. Good, clear communication is the key to a healthy, safe and productive workplace. Improving worker communication skills in background noise ensures roles and directions are understood and increases employee ability to warn each other of dangers.

What Is Lipreading?

Lipreading is an empowering skill used by many people to improve their communication skills. It involves looking for visual clues on the mouth, such as  lip, tongue, and jaw movements that are associated with different speech sounds. 

Almost everyone can benefit from learning to lipread.

For those with hearing challenges - lipreading is a tool that can help pick up on words that may have been missed. 

For those without hearing challenges - lipreading helps to improve communication in challenges listening environments (like background noise) and improve overall communication skills.

What's Included?

The Read Our Lips online learning program is self-paced for each employee

  • 8 Comprehensive Lessons

    Users are introduced to of the lip movements that are easiest to see and understand on the face. Each lesson is comprehensive with teaching instruction, practice and quizzes.

  • Video & Text Instruction

    Each lesson in the online learning program includes video teaching (with closed captions) and detailed text instruction to support a variety of learning styles in this easy to use online platform.

  • Certificate of Completion

    All users receive a certificate upon completion of the Read Our Lips learning program.