You need to decide how your company intends to manage the risk of hearing damage. The arrangements can be used as a tool to help you to monitor and review your safety performance, and ensure that you continue to control risks effectively.
Your arrangements for dealing with noise risks should link with your overall health and safety policy.
Ask yourself the following questions:
| Purpose/aim | What will the arrangements achieve? Will they prevent anyone being exposed to loud noise? |
|---|---|
| Scope | Who do the arrangements affect? |
| Legal duties | What are the legal duties specific to noise? |
| Objective(s) and targets | What are the objectives and how can you measure progress? It is important to choose objectives and set sensible targets to measure progress and where relevant, to specify and measure a baseline to assess how much progress has been made. |
| Risk control measures | How can you engage the workforce to work with you to reduce the risks? |
| Information and training | How can you train and encourage our workforce to reduce the risks? Should you provide some incentives, formal training, toolbox talks, and/or on the job training? |
| Monitoring | How will you check that the arrangements manage risk effectively? Are there any activities that you particularly need to review and monitor? How and when will you monitor the health of those who are still exposed to a risk? |
| Audit and review | When and how will you review the arrangements? |
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