Providing Hearing Protection Devices (HPD's)
Management has two primary responsibilities in ensuring that hearing protection devices protect hearing effectively: facilitation and enforcement.
Facilitation
Management facilitation involves ensuring that program implementers obtain the types of devices they need. Management can do this by making sure the procurement department does not override the implementer's selections. Employee participation in the selection of hearing protectors should be encouraged.
Management should extend its commitment to hearing protectors by requiring all personnel, including managers and visitors, to wear protectors in designated areas, and by encouraging employees to take hearing protectors home to use whenever engaging in noisy activities.
Management should give program implementer's the opportunity to pilot-test hearing protectors on a few employees. This will greatly facilitate decisions relating to the selection and ultimate effectiveness of these devices.
Program implementers should also be given resources and facilities to train employees in the use and care of hearing protectors.
Enforcement
Enforcing the use of hearing protection strategies is management's second vital responsibility.
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