Know exactly how loud really is.
Audio Safe turns a Sunday Worship into a leadership-ready sound report. Six standard positions, evidence-graded, backed by OSHA / NIOSH / WHO reference points — delivered in a PDF your board and sound team will actually use.
Screening only — not a calibrated compliance measurement. No audio is recorded.
Modern worship runs louder than most volunteers realize.
A typical mid-size band service peaks in the 90–102 dB range at the front rows — that's a permissible daily exposure of under 30 minutes under NIOSH's recommended limits. Kids' rooms and stage-monitor positions are frequently worse than the auditorium.
Church leadership needs a number, not an argument. Audio Safe gives you one — and a defensible plan for what to do about it.
Reference values compiled from NIOSH, OSHA 29 CFR 1910.95 and WHO 2022 safe-listening guidance.
One methodology. Every service. Every venue.
Every session covers the same six locations, so results are comparable across weeks, campuses and denominations.
- 01Front seatingDirectly under the PA hang.
- 02Center seatingWhere the majority of the congregation sits.
- 03Rear seatingThe typical family and elderly row.
- 04Children's spaceNursery, kids' ministry, hall spill.
- 05LobbyFoyer / greeting area during service.
- 06Stage monitor positionWhat the band actually hears.
6 positions measured. Highest average level: 96.8 dB. Highest peak: 108.5 dB. 3 positions in the RED range.
You aren't buying an app.
You're buying the report.
Every assessment produces a single client-ready PDF: a one-page leadership summary any pastor can act on, per-position findings with evidence grades, recommended green/yellow/red operating ranges, and a next-step recommendation — all wrapped in reference points from OSHA, NIOSH and WHO.
- Leadership summary written for elders, not engineers.
- Per-position findings — average, peak, duration, time-above-threshold.
- Recommended operating ranges tuned to your venue.
- Evidence grade on every reading (A / B / C / D).
- Reference points: OSHA 29 CFR 1910.95, NIOSH REL, WHO 2022.
- Scope-of-report disclaimer that keeps everyone honest.
Every +3 dB cuts safe exposure in half.
At 85 dB you get 8 hours a day. At 100 dB you get 15 minutes. Most worship services run over that limit for the front and stage-monitor positions — for volunteers, that's every Sunday.
NIOSH REL, 3 dB exchange rate. OSHA's PEL uses a more permissive 5 dB rate and an 85 dBA action level.
A single Sunday at Grace Community Church.
6 positions, 20 minutes each. Assessed under a mid-size worship set with full band, in-ear monitors and a live drummer wedge.
Built for worship. Useful anywhere a room gets loud.
From service to signed report in under a week.
One report. One number. One decision.
We sell the assessment and the report — not a software subscription. Founding-client pricing is limited to our first cohort of venues.
- 1 self-guided screening session
- All 6 standard positions
- Screening PDF report
- Green / Yellow / Red verdict per position
- Credit toward a Leadership upgrade
- 1 full service assessment
- All 6 standard positions
- Leadership-ready PDF report
- Free "Audio Safe Assessed" digital badge
- 30-day follow-up call included
- Founding rate locked for renewals
- 1 full service assessment
- All 6 standard positions
- Leadership-ready PDF report
- Calibrated Grade B upgrade available
- Multi-service and multi-campus quotes on request
Every dollar we earn comes from delivering the PDF report — not the app, not a subscription, not ads. If the deliverable isn't useful to your leadership team, we haven't done our job.
Honest answers.
Is this OSHA-compliant testing?+
No — and we won't say it is. Audio Safe is a screening / operational decision-support tool. If your situation requires formal regulatory compliance testing, you need a calibrated Type 1 or Type 2 sound-level meter or a personal dosimeter. Our report tells you honestly when that next step is worth taking.
Do you record our service audio?+
Never. The app takes microphone buffers, reduces them to a single dB number in memory, and discards the buffer. Nothing is ever written to disk or transmitted. This is baked into the app — not a policy we could quietly change.
How accurate is a smartphone reading?+
Grade C: roughly ±5 dB between devices. Good enough to identify unsafe zones and drive leadership decisions. For tighter numbers we offer a Grade B option: a validated app running against a calibrated external microphone.
Who is behind Audio Safe?+
Argos Advanced Solutions Inc. — a small US firm building tools for church operations and volunteer safety. Audio Safe is our first shipping product.
Can we buy the app instead?+
The app exists to make the assessment possible — the value we sell is the report. If you want to run the meter yourself between assessments, that's included with any active assessment engagement.
Give your leadership one number they can act on.
One service. Six positions. One PDF that tells you exactly where you stand — and what to do about it.