Noise Policy: Advance Occupational Health & Safety
Noise Policy: Advance Occupational Health & Safety
OBJECTIVES
- Identify hazardous noise environments in the workplace through sound surveys.
- Implement engineering and/or administrative controls to reduce workplace noise levels or worker exposure to noise.
- Provide hearing protective devices to exposed employees whenever such controls are not feasible or fail to reduce noise levels below the action level.
- Provide audiometric testing for exposed employees.
- Provide training for exposed employees
COURSE OUTLINE
- Noise definitions and identifying
- Noise Levels: Sound Survey
- Noise Control Methods
- Noise equations, Calculations, and measurement
- Training and Education Methods of data collection
- Collected data analyzing methods
- Identifying hearing loss factors and applying countermeasures
- Audiometric Testing
- Record Keeping
- Responsibilities