Employee Responsibilities
Employees who operate or maintain and repair the equipment are often the ones who know most about the processes involved.
Warnings work only if employees comply.
Employees need to:
- comply with all noise-related warnings and cautions;
- learn to operate their machines with the noise controls in place;
- maintain the controls properly;
- notify appropriate personnel when additional maintenance is needed;
- notify supervisors when they notice changes in equipment sound levels;
- 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;
- assist with 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; and
- cooperate by maintaining their normal work routine when asked to wear dosimeters, so that the results will be representative of their actual exposures.
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3-9. Why should employees be involved with engineering noise surveys?
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