Noise Awareness Training, Page 66 Reviews

The course covered all the basic requirements of an awareness session. It was good that it covered both Employer obligations AND Employee obligations. The content is straightforward without being patronising so it will work for all employees.

170,000 people with hearing damadge is actually 17,000 acording to HSE site. Make up of the ear is not important.

Why does the forward arrow at the end of the course... restart the course rather than moving to the test? I.e. I would have expected the test to follow automatically rather than having to manually select it.... its just a little irratating.

A GOOD WAY TO CONVEY INFORMATION WITHOUT THE HASSLE OF PROVIDING CLASSROOM TRAINING

The interactive test at the end of the session allows the person taking the test to have an instant sense of achievment.

an easy to follow programme with good demonstrations of PPE that could be provided

good

I now know more about how the ear is affected by different sounds and why.

Good and easy to follow, as always the results of the questions and test show level of understanding to people like myself

Slide 1 No clear indication that noise is pressue waves no differential betwenn percussion noise and percussion noise (e.g Gunshot) no indication of noise being measured in dbA and dbB and the relationships Slide 2 All Hearing loss ( something like 97%) is gradual and the reason why it is such a bad problem is that few people realise the Advisory Hearing Protection Zones (AHPZ) have been or should be established to protect future hearing but will only do so if operators buy in to protecting themselves and using the hearing protection provided at AHPZ, slide 3 somewhat confusing, Slide 4 Confusing in that its the first mention of dbA and implies all hearing protection reduces noise levels by 20dbB (no indication of relationship between dbA and dbB) Slide 5 First statement an over simplification and incorrect re when Risk Assessment must be done also not sure of advised hierarchy of controls is correct order/sequence Slide 7 again an over simplification in respect of when hearing checks must offered (and should be taken up) also staff right to refuse and consequenes of refusing not explained.