Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK have experienced hearing difficulties as a result of their work

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 20m

Learning outcomes

  • Understand how your ears work
  • Understand the damage that loud noise can do to your hearing
  • Know how to meet the legal requirements that reduce the risks of noise exposure at work

Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 2 sections

  1. 1
    Your Ears & Noise Exposure
  2. 2
    Noise Control Measures

About this course

Regular exposure to loud noise can affect your hearing. This noise awareness training programme looks at who’s at risk, what those risks are, and how to reduce them.

More than 11 million people in the UK suffer with forms of hearing loss and over 900,000 people are profoundly or severely deaf.

This online course looks at how your ears work to illustrate how delicate they are, how easily they can be damaged, and why noise-damaged hearing loss is permanent. It covers safe noise exposure levels and looks at what can be done to reduce exposure to regular loud noise or to sudden extreme noise.

This training programme will help you to recognise the early warning signs of hearing loss, so that something can be done before it’s too late. High-risk environments for noise exposure include Construction Sites, Factories or Industrial production lines, and some Hospitality venues (nightclubs, live music etc).

Due to abrasive wheels emitting high levels of noise, this noise awareness course works perfectly alongside our Abrasive Wheel Safety Course!

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The importance of Noise Awareness Training

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Available in 40 languages

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Italian
German
Romanian
French
Polish
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Noise Awareness Training certificate

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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Noise Awareness Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Noise Awareness Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

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Excellent coarse Kent a lot more about my hearing that I did not know about.

Important to know as it directly affects everyone's quality of life.

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Good reminder, and shows how important ear protection is !

Good reminder,still need to suss inner and mid ear, because I messed that up again !

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Why is this training important?

Compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 require that an employer:

  • Must assess and identify measures to eliminate or reduce risks from exposure to noise so that you can protect the hearing of your employees
  • Provides hearing protection where it is required
  • Provides other controls, if they are required, and that these are properly used
  • Provides information, training and health surveillance
  • Reviews what they are doing if anything changes that may affect the noise exposures in the workplace

Suitable and sufficient information and training (must be provided) for employees, such that work equipment may be used correctly, in order to minimise their exposure to noise.

The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 Section 6 (3)

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 together ensure that employers have legal responsibility to ensure the health and safety at work of all employees. And this includes making sure employees are safe when working where noise can be loud or excessive.

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