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9 HAZARD PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAMMES
programmes and their management, relating them to the prevention of noise exposure and associated effects, whenever relevant. A programme to protect workers from the effects of hazardous noise exposure in the workplace is often called a “hearing conservation programme”. However, rather than an isolated
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