Monitor Sound Levels To protect Your Employees

The control Of noise at Work regulations require that employers prevent or reduce risks of over exposure to loud noise.

Monitoring noise and sound levels is a way to do this.

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Legislation Highlights for Noise and Sound

Confined Space
A confined space is a place which is substantially enclosed (though not always entirely), and where serious injury can occur from hazardous substances or conditions within the space or nearby (e.g. lack of oxygen)
Noise At Work
The maximum daily or weekly exposure is 87 db and the maximum peak sound pressure is 140 db. If the daily noise reaches 85db(A) the law states that ear protection must not only be provided, it must be worn! The regulations state that "the employer shall ensure that risk from the exposure of employees to noise is either eliminated at source or, where this is not reasonably practicable, reduced to as low a level as reasonably practicable" Are your emloyees exposed to high noise levels??