NOISE RISK ASSESSMENT TEMPLATE
A free template for doing a noise risk assessment.
A noise assessment is part of a noise risk assessment - sounds the same but not quite, but a noise risk assessment is not massively onerous.
Free downloadable noise risk assessment template.
The Noise Regs require an employer to have a noise risk assessment in place and a noise assessment forms part of that, indeed it is probably the majority of it.
Fear not, a noise risk assessment is not overly complex and is actually basically just a bit of admin, creating one document which references all the various bits of noise safety such as the noise assessment, noise training, hearing testing, PPE, etc., and pulls it all into one document.
The noise risk assessment itself is a simple thing, a couple of pages at most, and is considered to be how a company manages noise safety.
Noise risk assessment contents
1) The Noise assessment itself
Although it sounds the same, a noise assessment is slightly different to a nosie risk assessment. A noise assessment covers:
What the expected noise exposure levels are for staff
What physical or organisational controls can be done or planned to reduce the noise levels.
What PPE (hearing protection) is needed.
Who needs to wear PPE and when.
Who needs to be included in a health surveillance programme.
What areas need the mandatory signing.
Wo need to be covered in a noise safety training programme.
This is the part I provide.
2) Health surveillance records
In the noise risk assessment, referencing who manages it and any key summarised findings and recommendations.
3) Noise reduction measures
What is going to be investigated as a means to reduce noise levels, when and by whom.
4) Noise safety training
When it was last done, when it will be repeated, what will be done with new starters, who holds the records for it.
5) PPE records
What PPE is available, from where, who issues it, who monitors it, what is the procedure for managing it.
6) Signage
What signs are needed and where. This can just refer back to the noise assessment.
Noise risk assessment template
You can download a free Word document noise risk assessment template here.
Download noise risk assessment template
Clicking the link should save a copy in your downloads folder.
A noise risk assessment really is not overly complex and basically just references everything else which is in place for noise safety. It doesn’t take long and is effectively a central management point for noise safety.
Once you have your noise assessment done by someone such as my good self you are most of the way there.
