Workplace Noise Monitoring
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 sets out the need for employers to control worker’s exposure to potentially harmful levels of noise. A workplace noise assessment will help identify areas where noise exceeds safe levels, and we will work with you to ensure you remain compliant with regulation.
Workplace Noise Monitoring - An Overview
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 require employers to assess workplace noise exposure, ensure legal limits are not exceeded, and reduce noise at source wherever reasonably practicable. Where there is a risk of hearing damage, employers must also implement appropriate health surveillance.
API Environmental Solutions provides expert consultancy services to help organisations meet these regulatory requirements with confidence.
How We Can Help
We carry out comprehensive noise surveys and personal noise exposure monitoring to accurately measure sound levels and exposure durations across your workplace.
Using detailed quantitative data, we deliver clear, practical recommendations on control measures, working procedures, and appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). Our aim is to reduce noise exposure, safeguard employee health, and ensure full compliance with current legislation.
With extensive experience across a wide range of sectors and industries, API UK offers trusted expertise in workplace noise assessment — delivered professionally, effectively, and without unnecessary noise.
Key Information: Exposure Limits
At 80dB and above employers must:
- Provide employees with hearing protection when they ask for it
- Take action to reduce risk of noise that is “reasonably practicable” e.g. reducing employee exposure time
- Provide employees with training and give them key information surrounding the risk and how they can keep themselves safe from noise – you can supplement training with the HSE document “Noise: Don’t Lose Your Hearing” (Link Below)
At 85dB and above employers must:
- Provide employees with hearing protectors and make sure they use them fully and properly
- Take action to reduce noise exposure with a planned programme of noise control as far as “reasonably practicable”
- Provide employees with training and give them key information surrounding the risk and how they can keep themselves safe from noise – you can supplement training with the HSE document “Noise: Don’t Lose Your Hearing” (Link Below)
- Provide health surveillance for all your employees who are likely to be frequently exposed above the upper exposure action values, or are at risk for any reason, e.g. they already suffer from hearing loss or are particularly sensitive to damage.
87dB is the upper exposure limit. In order to comply with regulation, you must ensure that “your worker’s noise
exposure, reduced by an appropriate factor if they are using personal hearing protection, is not above:
- 87 decibels for daily or weekly personal noise exposure; and
- 140 decibels for peak sound pressure
According to the HSE: “Complying with exposure limits is only one aspect of your legal duties under the Noise Regulations. It is separate from your duty to reduce risks from noise to as low as is reasonably practicable.”
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Some Useful Links
We have provided some links below to helpful information
HSE Website: Noise at Work – The HSE provide information and advice on their website for both employers and employees
Noise: Don’t Lose Your Hearing – This HSE document gives advice to employees on how they can protect both their own hearing and that of their colleagues
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