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Protection Against the Effects of Noise eLearning
Online noise at work training that explains the exposure limits, why hearing loss is permanent, and how hearing protection only works if it is worn properly and all of the time.
Who it is for
Who this noise awareness course is for
Noise-induced hearing loss builds up quietly over years and cannot be reversed. It affects anyone working near machinery, power tools or loud processes, and the damage is done long before anyone notices it.
- Manufacturing, engineering and workshop staff
- Construction and demolition operatives
- Woodworking, metalworking and fabrication workers
- Agricultural and groundcare workers
- Events, entertainment and hospitality staff
- Supervisors responsible for hearing protection zones
- Anyone whose workplace has a noise risk assessment
Course content
What the noise course covers
Six short modules from how hearing works to how protection is chosen, fitted and maintained, including why the wrong protector is as bad as none.
How hearing works, and how it fails
What noise actually does to the ear, and why the damage is permanent.
Recognising a noise problem
Practical indicators that noise levels are too high, without needing a meter in your hand.
Exposure action values and limits
What the daily and peak values mean, and what has to happen once each one is reached.
Controlling noise at source
Why engineering controls come before protection, and what they look like in practice.
Hearing protection
Choosing, fitting, wearing and maintaining protectors, and the real cost of taking them off briefly.
Health surveillance
Why hearing checks exist, what they are looking for, and what happens if something is found.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Explain how noise causes permanent hearing damage
- Recognise when noise levels are likely to be a problem
- Say what the exposure action values and limit values require
- Understand why controlling noise at source comes first
- Fit and wear hearing protection correctly
- Explain why health surveillance matters and what it involves
Your legal duty
The law behind noise at work training
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 set exposure action values and exposure limit values, and require employers to assess the risk, eliminate or reduce noise at source, provide hearing protection, and put health surveillance in place where the risk to health remains.
Training is part of that duty. Where employees are exposed at or above the lower exposure action value, the employer must provide suitable and sufficient information, instruction and training. That's what this course delivers at awareness level.
- Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - sections 2 and 7
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - risk assessment
- Separate regulations cover hand-arm and whole-body vibration
Practicalities
How the course works
For employers
Noise training for a whole site
Hearing protection compliance is a supervision problem as much as a training one. Putting everyone through the same course makes the expectation consistent.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting alongside your health surveillance records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own noise assessment and zones
Where you need face-fit or practical protector training alongside the awareness element, we can deliver that on your site. Talk to us about onsite training →
Protection Against the Effects of Noise eLearning: common questions
Where employees are exposed at or above the lower exposure action value, the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 require the employer to provide information, instruction and training. This course covers the awareness element of that.
The Regulations set lower and upper daily action values and an exposure limit value, each triggering different duties. The course explains what each one requires rather than expecting people to memorise numbers.
No, and the course is direct about that. Protection is the last line. The Regulations require noise to be eliminated or reduced at source first, because protectors only work when worn correctly and continuously.
Yes. Noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus cannot be repaired. That is the single most important message of the course.
About 30 minutes, with no time limit. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people join, with completion reporting included.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
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