'Your Health and Safety Guide to Noise'
'Your Health and Safety Guide to Noise'
More than 100,000 Victorian workers risk their hearing every day in noisy workplaces. Exposure to dangerous levels of noise can cause permanent hearing loss and tinnitus (ringing in the ears). While excessive noise remains a significant issue in many workplaces, it can be controlled.
This guide will help you understand the problem, and will explain what you need to do to make your workplace safe.
This guide covers the following areas:
- What is noise?
- What injuries can noise cause?
- The law
- Information for employers
- Information for employees
- Information for designers, manufacturers and suppliers
- Compliance and enforcement
PLEASE NOTE: This is a Victorian Worksafe publication. Legislation does differ between the various states and territories and we recommend that you check that the information is relevant to your state when reading this publication.
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