Employee Responsibilities
Employees who operate or maintain and repair the equipment are often the ones who know most about the processes involved.
Employee assistance is especially critical to the success of engineering noise surveys.
They need to express their concerns and ideas to management, the program implementer, or the noise-control engineer so that the noise-control devices will be as practical and effective as possible.
- Employee assistance is especially critical to the success of engineering noise surveys where sound sources within a work process or a piece of equipment need to be evaluated, and only the employee knows the proper operation of the equipment.
- Employees also need to cooperate by maintaining their normal work routine when asked to wear dosimeters, so that the results will be representative of their actual exposures.
Sound levels often increase when equipment begins to wear or fails to receive appropriate maintenance. Also, changes in equipment placement may cause unintended effects on sound levels.
- When employees notice such changes, they need to inform the supervisory personnel or the program implementer that a change has occurred. A re-survey will be needed to evaluate the new sound levels and employee exposures whenever equipment or production changes occur.
- Employees also have the responsibility of learning to operate their machines with the noise controls in place, of maintaining the controls properly, and of notifying the appropriate personnel when additional maintenance is needed.
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