Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 58

58 Audiometric testing

(1) This section applies in relation to a worker who is required by the person conducting the business of undertaking to use personal protective equipment to protect the worker from the risk of hearing loss associated with noise that exceeds the exposure standard for noise.

(2) The person conducting the business or undertaking must provide audiometric testing for the worker—

(a) within 3 months of the worker commencing the work; and

(b) in any event, at least every 2 years.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(3) In this section—

"audiometric testing" means the testing and measurement of the hearing threshold levels of each ear of a person by means of pure tone air conduction threshold tests.