Noise Hazard Training Modules

Now Hear This! - Protecting Your Hearing

CONTENT:Your Ears, Measurement of Sound, How Your Hearing Gets Damaged, Dangerous Noise, What Your  Employer Should Do, Your Responsibilities, Choosing Ear Protection, Looking After Yourself. Includes 14 questions.

Noise Control - Identification and Assessment

CONTENT:Noise as a Hazard, Noise Identification, Noise Assessment, Employer's Responsibilities.  Includes 11 questions.

Controlling Noise in the Workplace

CONTENT: Action Plan, Methods for Controlling Noise: Engineering controls, Administrative controls, Hearing  protection, Supervision, Training Employees, Review and Evaluation. Includes 8 questions.

Noise Hazard Assessment Test

Fifteen questions to test your knowledge based on the Now Hear This! module.

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Resources

In this section you will find links to useful web sites and books that you can buy. Just click on the underlined  links.

Keep the Noise Down: Advice for Purchasers of Workplace MachineryHealth and Safety Executive Paperback Published 1997

Reducing Noise at Work Health and Safety Executive Paperback Published 1998

 Novel Methods for Early Identification of Noise-induced Hearing Loss  HSE Published 2000.

Non-auditory Effects of Noise HSE Published 1999

Legislation for Noise and Vibration Professional Engineering Publishing Published 2000

Internet Links

More information from the HSE athttp://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg201.htm

Advice for purchasers of machineryhttp://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg263.htm

Noise at work- a guide for employeeshttp://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg99.htm

Health Surveillance - Advice for employershttp://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/noise1.htm

Introducing the Noise at Work Regulationshttp://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg75l.htm

Noise Control http://www.worksafe.gov.au/work/natsol/noise/contents.htm

Noise, Ears and Hearing Protection,an American Academy of Otolaryngology

Royal National Institute for Deaf Peoplehttp://www.rnid.org.uk/

Noise Mapping in Paper Mills (no 2)http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/pbis2.pdf