Noise Risk Assessment
Occupational hearing loss includes acoustic traumatic injury and occupational noise related hearing disorders (ONRHD), and can be defined as a partial or complete hearing loss in one or both ears as the result of ones employment. Exposure to excessive noise is the major avoidable cause of permanent hearing impairment worldwide. Therefore, Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) have amend the noise exposure limit and imposed a more practical standard to control the exposure of excessive noise under the regulation of Occupational Safety and Health (Noise Exposure) Regulations 2019 and this latest regulation is to replace Factories and Machinery (Noise Exposure) Regulations 1989 since June 2019.
The Eurofins network of companies in Malaysia have own NRA competence to conduct Noise Risk Assessment with following scope:
- To conduct noise risk assessment by carrying out area noise monitoring and personal noise
exposure monitoring by using approved instrument that comply with the standard determined by the
international electrotechnical commission (IEC). - To tabulate, interpret and compare the area noise monitoring and personal noise exposure
monitoring result with the noise exposure limit as stipulated under the “Occupational Safety and
Health (Noise Exposure) Regulations 2019”. - To assess and study the adequacy of the existing control measures available within the work
place. - To recommend the practicable noise reduction measures such as engineering control, alternative
or design or process, administrative control, personal hearing protection and etc. - To recommend necessary programme to further reduce the risk of employees from noise induce
hearing loss.
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