Workplace Safety And Health Regulation
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PART 12
HEARING CONSERVATION AND
NOISE CONTROL
Sound control design
12.1
An employer must ensure that a new workplace, a significant physical
alteration, renovation or repair to an existing workplace or a work
process or any significant equipment
that is introduced to the
workplace is designed and constructed so that the continuous noise
level generated
(a) is not more than 85 dBA; or
(b) is as low as is reasonably practicable, where it is not reasonably
practicable to meet the standard under clause (a).
Noise exposure assessed and reported
12.2
An employer must conduct a noise exposure assessment at the
workplace in accordance with CAN/CSA Z107.56-13,
Measurement of
noise exposure, and prepare and post in a conspicuous place in the
workplace a written report of the assessment, if
(a) a worker is or is likely to be exposed
to noise at a workplace in
excess of 80 dBA;
(b) there is
(i) an alteration, renovation or repair of the workplace,
(ii) new equipment introduced in the workplace, or
(iii) a modification
done to a work process, that may result in a
significant change in a worker’s exposure to noise; or
(c) a worker provides the employer with evidence of an
occupationally induced hearing loss.
M.R. 128/2019
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