Location: This course is scheduled and organised by IOSH directly, but delivered by the INVC. Public courses take place at various locations around the country, including our head office in Slough. It can also be delivered in-house. View dates and venues >
Course outline: Designed for Health and Safety professionals, managers and engineers involved in assessing or managing the risks from noise in the workplace and who need to be able to carry out simple noise measurements and update company procedures to match HSE expectations.
Learning objectives and outcomes: provide delegates with the practical knowledge and skills necessary for them to be able to carry out basic noise measurements and to understand what constitutes best practice in noise measurement and risk management.
Accreditation: IOSH Certification of Attendance
Qualification: N/A: 2 CPD Points
Relevant regulations: The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
Important Note
Whilst you can contact us to discuss course details, we run the course for IOSH and they handle the administration and bookings. If you'd like to book a place on the workshop, please follow this link >
- Introduction
- Terminology and the behaviour of sound
- The noise regulations
- HSE approach and expectations
- Implementing best practice in:
- noise management assessment
- noise control
- Sound level meters and noise measurement
- Practical measurement session
- Review and discussion
Delegates need not have any prior knowledge on the subject of industrial noise. They should bring their own sound level meter if they have one, but meters can be provided.
It may be useful to skim through the existing Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 (L108) HSE Booklet, available to download via this link.
