Protecting Your Hearing at Work

Protecting Your Hearing at Work is a concise course designed to help workers understand the dangers of workplace noise exposure and how to manage associated risks. Participants will learn about the Noise at Work guidelines, acceptable noise levels, and methods for assessing and controlling noise. The course also covers appropriate hearing protection.

This course is aimed at employees exposed to intrusive noise at work, such as those who use noisy tools or machinery, where tasks produce impact noise, such as hammering or pneumatic impact, and those who work in industries known for noisy tasks, such as but not limited to, construction, woodworking, engineering and manufacturing.

It is suitable for supervisors.

On completion, learners will be able to:

• Understand the Noise at Work guidelines
• Identify workplace noise controls
• Recognise the health effects of noise
• Explain their responsibilities as employees in protecting their hearing

• For over 60 years, the British Safety Council has been educating millions of workers and making hundreds of thousands of workplaces safer around the world.
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There are no entry requirements for this course.

There is a graded assessment at the end of the short course that must be passed in order to complete this training.

This is a non-accredited course. It does not result in a formal qualification. A Certificate of Completion is awarded upon successful passing of the assessment.