Hearing Conservation 29 CFR 1910.95

The following course outline is designed to make employees aware of the hazards associated with noise hazards.

1. Hearing Program
   1. Why people receive training about hearing conservation
   2. The threshold for safe occupational noise exposure
   3. Basic components for all hearing conservation
2. Hearing and Noise
   1. The major adverse health effects caused by noise
   2. How the ear receives and processes
   3. Common Sources:
      1. Industrial Machinery
      2. Woodworking machinery
      3. Construction Equipment
      4. Aircraft
3. Monitoring / Testing
   1. Purpose of noise monitoring
   2. Purpose of audiogram
4. Protection
   1. How employers can protect employees from overexposure to noise
   2. Precautions to take to reduce risk of exposure
   3. Procedures for exposure incident response, clean-up, and post-exposure evaluations

NOTE: CSEM, Inc. may be contacted in the future to schedule a workplace evaluation and program review in an effort to help maintain compliance with this regulation. This segment of the OSHA requirement can be easily documented by the employer and is not included in this proposal but will be mentioned in training.