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• 1. What is noise?
• 2. Responsibilities
• 3. Noise assessments
• 4. How should noise be managed?
• 5. What are noise control measures?
  • 5.1 Elimination - new plant and workplaces
  • 5.2 Engineering controls - existing plant and workplaces
  • 5.3 Administrative noise control measures
  • 5.4 Personal hearing protectors
• 6. Audiometric testing
• Appendix 1 - extract from the Workplace Health and Safety Regulation 1997
• Appendix 2 – Obligations under the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995
• Appendix 3 – Noise hazard identification checklist
• Appendix 4 – Instruments for assessing noise levels
• Appendix 5 – Guidance material
• Appendix 6 – Ototoxins
• Appendix 7 – Acoustic shock
• Appendix 8 – Dictionary

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Appendix 8 – Dictionary

• 'employer' - (1) A person is an employer if–

1. the person conducts a business or undertaking; and
2. in the conduct of the business or undertaking, the person engages someone else to do the work, other than under a contract for services, for or at the direction of the person.

(2) For subsection (1)(b), a person engages someone else to do work whether the person engaged works for gain or reward or on a voluntary basis.

(3) For an apprentice or trainee who is employed by a group training organisation, the employer is –

1. when the apprentice or trainee is engaged to do work for a host employer – the host employer; or
2. otherwise – the group training organisation.

(4) In this section –

apprentice means an apprentice under the Vocational Education, Training and Employment Act 2000.
group training organisation means a group training organisation under the Vocational Education, Training and Employment Act 2000.
host employer means a person who contracts with a group training organisation for the training of apprentices and trainees.
trainee means a trainee under the Vocational Education, Training and Employment Act 2000.

• 'obligation holder' means a person who has a responsibility under the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (PDF, 766 KB) to discharge an obligation in regards to workplace health and safety.

• 'ototoxin' means a chemical that may cause hearing loss, independent of noise exposure, or which may potentiate noise induced hearing loss by synergistic effects.

• 'plant' includes:
1. machinery, equipment, appliance, pressure vessel, implement and tool; and
2. personal protective equipment; and
3. a component of plant and a fitting.

• 'principal contractor' – (1) The principal contractor for construction work is the person appointed by the owner of the workplace , where the construction work is to be performed, as the principal contractor for the construction work under section 184A³⁰.

(2) If the owner does not appoint a principal contractor for the construction work, the owner is taken to be the principal contractor for the construction work.

• 'worker' - (1) A person is a worker if the person does work, other than under a contract for services, for or at the direction of an employer.

Example of subsection (1) –

A subcontractor works under a contract for services and is not a worker for this Act.

(2) A person may be a worker even though the person is not paid for work done by the person.

• 'workplace' – A workplace is any place where work is, or is to be performed by -

1. a worker; or
2. a person conducting a business or undertaking.

Examples –

1. a vessel used for teaching members of the public to scuba dive
2. a vehicle supplied by an employer for use by a worker in the performance of work.

30 Section 184A (Appointment of principal contractors)

Last updated 22 July 2008

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