Bad vibes
Tools and equipment or tasks should be planned and selected to eliminate or reduce exposure to hand arm vibration or noise e.g. mechanical breaking of pile heads.
Hand held tools should be assessed for levels of noise and vibration in use. Workers should be monitored to ensure any restrictions on trigger time or requirements for task rotation are observed.
Where hearing protection is provided to protect against noise it must provide adequate attenuation and you must liaise with the contract management team to establish and maintain hearing protection and / or exclusion zones as necessary. You may be required to undertake background noise monitoring for very noisy activities.