After visiting the Bronx Zoo, The Grandma hasbeen reading about the workplace safety and health in the United States, and interesting report published by the U.S.Department of Labor. Remember: Always Be Careful!
Three U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) agencies have responsibility for the administration and enforcement of the laws enacted to protect the safety and health of workers in America.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
-OSHA administers the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act.
-Safety and health conditions in most private industries are regulated by OSHA or OSHA-approved state plans.
-Nearly every employee in the nation comes under OSHA's jurisdiction with some exceptions such as miners, some transportation workers, many public employees, and the self-employed.
-Employers subject to the OSH Act also have a general duty to provide work and a workplace free from recognized, serious hazards.
-OSHA also administers the Whistleblower Protection program, ensuring an employer cannot retaliate by taking "adverse action" against workers who report injuries, safety concerns, or other protected activity.
-MSHA has responsibility for administration and enforcement of the Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, which protects the safety and health of workers employed in the nation's mines.
-The Act applies to all mining and mineral processing operations in the United States, regardless of size, number of employees, or method of extraction.
Fair Labor Standards Act
FLSA contains rules concerning the employment of young workers, those under the age of 18, and is administered and enforced by DOL's Wage and Hour Division. Intended to protect the health and well-being of youth in America, the FLSA contains minimum age restrictions for employment, restrictions on the times of day youth may work, and the jobs they may perform.
Other resources
-Office of Workers' Compensation Programs-Administers four major disability compensation programs which provide wage replacement benefits, medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation and other benefits to certain workers or their dependents who experience work-related injury or occupational disease. You can also read more at our workers' compensation topic page.
-Office of the Ombudsman for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOMBD) and the SHARE initiative also play a role in the administration of DOL workplace safety and health programs.
For help in determining which safety and health standards apply to particular employment situations, select from the subtopics lists. Also, see the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s webpages on safety and health in the workplace.
Today, The Grangers & The Grandma have visited the Bronx Zoo, the a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York.Before this interesting visit, they have revised Must/Mustn't andthe ObjectPronouns.
The Bronx Zoo (alsohistorically the Bronx Zoological Park and the Bronx Zoological Gardens) is a zoo within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York. It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area and is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States by area, comprising 107 ha of park lands and naturalistic habitats separated by the Bronx River.
On average, the zoo has 2.15 million visitors each year as of 2009. The zoo's original permanent buildings, known as Astor Court, were designed as a series of Beaux-Arts pavilions grouped around the large circular sea lion pool. The Rainey Memorial Gates were designed by sculptor Paul Manship in 1934 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
The zoo opened on November 8, 1899, featuring 843 animals in 22 exhibits. Its first director was William Temple Hornaday, who served as director for 30 years. From its inception the zoo has played a vital role in animal conservation.
In 1905, the American Bison Society was created in an attempt to save the American bison from extinction, which had been depleted from tens-of-millions of animals to only a few hundred. Two years later they were successfully reintroduced into the wild.
In 2007, the zoo successfully reintroduced three Chinese alligators into the wild. The breeding was a milestone in the zoo's 10-year effort to reintroduce the species to the Yangtze River in China.
Today, the Bronx Zoo is world-renowned for its large and diverse animal collection, and its award-winning exhibitions. The zoo is part of an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and it is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
In 1895, a group made up largely of members of the Boone and Crockett Club founded the New York Zoological Society (later renamed the Wildlife Conservation Society) for the purposes of founding a zoo, promoting the study of zoology, and preserving wildlife. Credit for this belonged chiefly to Club members Madison Grant and C. Grant LaFarge.
Today, The Grandma has visited the Bronx accompanied by one of her closest friends, Kerry Washington,who was born in this incredible neighbourhood.
Kerry Marisa Washington (born January 31, 1977) is an American actress, producer,and director.She gained wide public recognition for starring as crisis management expert Olivia Pope in the ABC drama series Scandal (2012–2018).
For her role, she was twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and once for the Golden Globe
Award for Best Actress -Television Series Drama.
Her portrayal of Anita Hill in the HBO television political thriller film Confirmation (2016), and her role as Mia Warren in the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere (2020), both earned nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
In film, Washington is known for her roles as Della Bea Robinson in Ray (2004), as Kay in The Last King of Scotland (2006), as Alicia Masters in the live-action Fantastic Four films of 2005 and 2007, and as Broomhilda von Shaft in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012). She has also starred in the independent films Our Song (2000), The Dead Girl (2006), Mother and Child (2009), Night Catches Us (2010), and American Son (2019).
Time magazine included Washington in its Time 100 list of most influential people in 2014.
In 2018, Forbes named her the eighth highest-paid television actress. Washington has won a Primetime Emmy Award and five NAACP Image Awards, including The President's Award.
Washington was born in the Bronx, New York City,
the daughter of Valerie, a professor and educational consultant, and
Earl Washington, a real estate broker. Her father's family is of African
American origin, having moved from South Carolina to Brooklyn.
Her mother's family is from Manhattan, and Washington has said that her mother is from a mixed-race
background and from Jamaica, so she is partly English and Scottish and
Native American, but also descended from enslaved Africans in the
Caribbean.
The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.
It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York City borough of Queens, across the East River.
The Bronx has a land area of 109 km2 and a population of 1,472,654 in the 2020 census. If each borough were ranked as a city, the Bronx
would rank as the ninth-most-populous in the U.S. Of the five boroughs,
it has the fourth-largest area, fourth-highest population, and
third-highest population density.
It is the only borough of New York City not primarily on an island.
With a population that is 54.8% Hispanic as of 2020, it is the only
majority-Hispanic county in the Northeastern United States and the
fourth-most-populous nationwide.
The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a hillier section in the west, and a flatter eastern section.
East and west street names are divided by Jerome Avenue. The West Bronx
was annexed to New York City in 1874, and the areas east of the Bronx
River in 1895.
Bronx County was separated from New York County in 1914. About a quarter of the Bronx's
area is open space, including Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park,
Pelham Bay Park, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo in the
borough's north and center.
The Thain Family Forest at the New York Botanical Garden is thousands of years old; it is New York City's
largest remaining tract of the original forest that once covered the
city. These open spaces are primarily on land reserved in the late 19th
century as urban development progressed north and east from Manhattan.
The word Bronx originated with Faroese-bornJonas Bronck, whoestablished the first settlement in the area as part of the New Netherland colony in 1639.
European settlers displaced the native Lenape after 1643. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Bronx
received many immigrant and migrant groups as it was transformed into
an urban community, first from European countries (particularly Ireland,
Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe) and later from the Caribbean region
(particularly Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Haiti, Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados,
and the Dominican Republic), as well as African American migrants from
the southern United States, Panama, Honduras, West Africans, and South
Asians.
The Bronx
contains the poorest congressional district in the United States, the
15th. There are, however, some upper-income, as well as middle-income
neighborhoods such as Riverdale, Fieldston, Spuyten Duyvil,
Schuylerville, Pelham Bay, Pelham Gardens, Morris Park, and Country
Club.
Parts of the Bronx
saw a steep decline in population, livable housing, and quality of life
in the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and into the early
1990s, culminating in a wave of arson in the late 1970s. The South Bronx,
in particular, experienced severe urban decay. The borough began
experiencing new population growth starting in the late 1990s and
continuing to the present day.
Astoria is a neighbourhoodin the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens.
Astoria
is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to three other Queens
neighbourhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, Sunnyside to the
southeast, and Woodside to the east. As of 2019, Astoria has an estimated population of 95,446.
The
area was originally called Hallet's (or Hallett's) Cove after its first
landowner William Hallet, who settled there in 1652 with his wife,
Elizabeth Fones. Hallet's Cove was incorporated on April 12, 1839, and was later renamed for John Jacob Astor,
then the wealthiest man in the United States, in order to persuade him
to invest in the area. During the second half of the 19th century,
economic and commercial growth brought increased immigration.
Astoria and several other surrounding villages were incorporated into Long Island City in 1870, which in turn was incorporated into the City of Greater New York in 1898.
Commercial activity continued through the 20th century, with the area being a center for filmmaking and industry.
The area now known as Astoria
was originally called Hallet's Cove (also spelled Hallett's Cove),
after its first landowner William Hallet, (or Hallett) who settled there
in 1652 with his wife, Elizabeth Fones. The peninsula was bordered to
the north by Hell Gate, to the west by the East River, and the south by
Sunswick Creek. Hallet bought the land in 1664 from two native chiefs
named Shawestcont and Erramorhar. Beginning in the early 19th
century, affluent New Yorkers constructed large residences around 12th
and 14th Streets, an area that later became known as Astoria Village (now Old Astoria).
Hallet's Cove, incorporated on April 12, 1839 and previously founded by
fur merchant Stephen A. Halsey, was a noted recreational destination
and resort for Manhattan's wealthy.
The area was renamed for John Jacob Astor,
then the wealthiest man in the United States with a net worth of more
than $40 million, in order to persuade him to invest in the
neighbourhood. He only invested $500, but the name stayed nonetheless,
as a bitter battle over naming the village finally was won by Astor's
supporters and friends. From Astor's summer home in Yorkville, Manhattan
-on what is now East 87th Street near York Avenue-he could see across
the East River the new Long Island village named in his honour. Astor, however, never actually set foot in Astoria.
Astoria was first settled by the Dutch, English, and Germans in the 17th century. Many Irish settled in the area during the waves of Irish immigration into New York City during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Italians were the next significant immigrants in Astoria, and numerous Italian restaurants, delis, bakeries, and pizza shops are found throughout Astoria,particularly in the Ditmars Boulevard area.
Jews were also a significant ethnic and religious group. The Astoria Center of Israel,
which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built
in 1925 after outgrowing the former Congregation Mishkan Israel, which
was built in 1904.
The 1960s saw a large increase of Greek population from mainland Greece, and after 1974, there was an influx of Cypriots
from Cyprus. This cultural imprint can be seen in the numerous Greek
restaurants, tavernas, bakeries, and cafes, as well as several Greek
Orthodox churches.
In the late 1960s, a Greek Town neighbourhood coalesced in Astoria. From 1960s to 1980s the number of Greeks constantly increased. While the population of Greeks in Astoria was 22,579 in 1980, it dropped to 18,127 by 1990 due to decreased immigration and lower birth rates.
During
the 2000s, the Greek immigration dropped again. During the 2010s and
2020s economic issues in Greece caused a resurgence of Greek
immigration. Greek organizations in the area include the Hellenic American Action Committee (HANAC) and the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York.
About 20,000 Maltese also live in Astoria, and although this population has steadily been emigrating from the area, there are still many Maltese, supported by the Maltese Center of New York.
Beginning in the mid-1970s, the neighbourhood's Muslim population grew from earlier immigrants from Lebanon to also include people from Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria.
In the 1990s, Steinway Street between 28th Avenue and Astoria Boulevard saw the establishment of many Arabic shops, restaurants, and cafes, which is unofficially called Little Egypt, due to the number of Arabs residing there and the mostly Egyptian shops and lounges there.
Croatians from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina have been numerous since the 1960s and their numbers continue to grow. New populations of South American and Balkan peoples have seen significant growth since the early 1990s, including a large population of Brazilians, who reside in the 36th Avenue area. Albanians, Bulgarians, Serbs, and Bosnians have also shown a rise in numbers.
By the early 21st century, Astoria was one of the most ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in Queens, with people from around 100 countries residing there as of 2015.
When I think of immigration, I want to think of families. I want to think of unity. I want to think of a safe place, you know, free of persecution, a place where we can welcome a child that is hungry.
Today, The Grandma has visited a great friend, Jo Martinez, one of the youngest officers of the New York Police Department to make homicide detective.
Together, they have visited the Cloisters, amuseum in Washington Heights
(Jo's neighbourhood) where they have discovered Catalan and Occitan
cloisters that were bought during last century and carried from Europe
to America, stone by stone.
The Grandma loves Romanesque art, and Jo and she have spent a wonderful day discovering more secrets about these legendary stones. One of this cloisters, Sant Miquel de Cuixà, was
originally erected at the Benedictine Abbey of Sant Miquel de Cuixà on
Mont Canigó in North Catalonia which was founded in 878.
The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City, specializing in European medieval art and architecture, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods.
Governed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it contains a large collection of medieval artworks shown in the architectural settings of Occitan and Catalan monasteries and abbeys.
Its buildings are centered around four cloisters -the Cuixà, Saint-Guilhem, Bonnefont and Trie- that were acquired by American sculptor and art dealer George Grey Barnard in France before 1913, and moved to New York.
Barnard's
collection was bought for the museum by financier and philanthropist
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Other major sources of objects were the
collections of J. P. Morgan and Joseph Brummer.
Rockefeller purchased the museum site in Washington Heights in 1930, and donated it and the Bayard collection to the Metropolitan in 1931. Upon its opening on May 10, 1938, the Cloisters was described as a collection shown informally in a picturesque setting, which stimulates imagination and creates a receptive mood for enjoyment.
The basis for the museum's architectural structure came from the collection of George Grey Barnard, an American sculptor and collector who almost single-handedly established a medieval art museum near his home in the Fort Washington section of Upper Manhattan.
Barnard
was primarily interested in the abbeys and churches founded by monastic
orders from the 12th century. Following centuries of pillage and
destruction during wars and revolutions, stones from many of these
buildings were reused by local populations.
Reputedly he paid $25,000 for the Trie buildings, $25,000 for the Bonnefort and $100,000 for the Cuixà cloisters.
Located on the south side of the building's main level, the Cuixà cloisters are the museum's centerpiece both structurally and thematically. They
were originally erected at the Benedictine Abbey of Sant Miquel de
Cuixà on Mont Canigó in North Catalonia which was founded in 878.
The
monastery was abandoned in 1791 and fell into disrepair; its roof
collapsed in 1835 and its bell tower fell in 1839. About half of its
stonework was moved to New York between 1906 and 1907. The
installation became one of the first major undertakings by the
Metropolitan after it acquired Barnard's collection. After intensive
work over the fall and winter of 1925-26, the Cuixà cloisters were opened to the public on April 1, 1926.
The Bonnefont cloisters were assembled from several Occitan monasteries, but mostly come from a late 12th-century Cistercian Abbaye de Bonnefont at Bonnefont-en-Comminges, southwest of Tolosa.
The Bonnefont is on the upper level of the museum and gives a view of the Hudson River and the cliffs of the Palisades.
Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the uppermost part of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
It
is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the
highest natural point on Manhattan Island by Continental Army troops to
defend the area from the British forces during the American
Revolutionary War.
Washington Heights
is bordered by Inwood to the north along Dyckman Street, by Harlem to
the south along 155th Street, by the Harlem River and Coogan's Bluff to
the east, and by the Hudson River to the west.
Washington Heights,
which before the 20th century was sparsely populated by luxurious
mansions and single-family homes, rapidly developed during the early
1900s as it became connected to the rest of Manhattan via the A, C, and 1
subway lines.
Beginning
as a middle-class neighbourhood with many Irish and Eastern European
immigrants, the neighbourhood has at various points been home to
communities of German Jews, Greek Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban
Americans, and Russian Americans.
Throughout
the 1960s and 1970s, White residents began to leave the neighbourhood
for nearby suburbs as the Black and Latino populations increased.
Dominican Americans became the dominant group by the 1980s despite
facing economic difficulties, leading the neighbourhood to its status in
the 21st century as the most prominent Dominican community in the
United States. While crime became a serious issue during the crack
cocaine crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, in the 2000s Washington Heights became a much safer community and began to experience some upward mobility as well as gentrification.
Washington
Heights is set apart among Manhattan neighbourhoods for its high
residential density despite the lack of modern construction, with the
majority of its few high-rise buildings belonging to the
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Other
higher education institutions include Yeshiva University and Boricua
College.
The
neighbourhood has generous access to green space in Fort Washington
Park, Highbridge Park, and Fort Tryon Park, home to the historical
landmarks the Little Red Lighthouse, the High Bridge Water Tower, and the Cloisters respectively.
Other
points of interest include Audubon Terrace, the Morris-Jumel Mansion,
the United Palace, the Audubon Ballroom, and the Fort Washington Avenue
Armory.
Today, The Grangers & TheGrandma have visited the Yankees and the Metsstadiums. They like baseball a lot and they have spent a great day. Before this visit, they have been studying some Engl¡sh grammar. They have revised Should/Shouldn't.
Finally, they have continuing reading Oscar Wilde's TheCanterville Ghost.
The Yankees and Mets are the two major league clubs based in New York City.
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division.
They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City, the other being the National League's (NL) New York Mets.
The Yankees began play in the 1901 season as the Baltimore Orioles (no relation to the modern Baltimore Orioles).
In
1903, Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the franchise after it
ceased operations and moved it to New York City, renaming the club the
New York Highlanders. The Highlanders were officially renamed the New York Yankees in 1913.
The
team is owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, an LLC that is controlled
by the family of the late George Steinbrenner, who purchased the team in
1973. Brian Cashman is the team's general manager, and Aaron Boone is
the team's field manager. The team's home games were played at the
original Yankee Stadium from 1923 to 1973 and from 1976 to 2008.
In 1974 and 1975, the Yankees shared Shea Stadium with the Mets, in addition to the New York Jets and the New York Giants.
In
2009, they moved into a new ballpark of the same name that was
constructed adjacent to the previous facility, which was closed and
demolished. The team is perennially among the leaders in MLB attendance.
Arguably the most successful professional sports team in the United States, the Yankees
have won 19 American League East Division titles, 40 American League
pennants, and 27 World Series championships, all of which are MLB
records.
The
team has won more titles than any other franchise in the four major
North American sports leagues, after briefly trailing the NHL's Montreal
Canadiens by one or two titles in the 1990s.
The Yankees
have had 44 players and 11 managers inducted into the National Baseball
Hall of Fame, including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey
Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Mariano Rivera, and Derek Jeter, with
Rivera and Jeter having the two highest vote percentages of all Hall of
Fame members.
According to Forbes, the Yankees
are the second-highest valued sports franchise in the United States and
the second in the world, with an estimated value of approximately $5
billion. The team has garnered enormous popularity and a dedicated
fanbase, as well as widespread enmity from fans of other MLB teams. The
team's rivalry with the Boston Red Sox is one of the most well-known
rivalries in North American sports.
From 1903 to 2021, the Yankees' overall win-loss record is 10,503-7.
The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens.
The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division.
They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City, the other being the American League's (AL) New York Yankees.
One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets
were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed NL teams, the
Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. The team's colors evoke the
blue of the Dodgers and the orange of the Giants.
For the 1962 and 1963 seasons, the Mets played home games at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan before moving to Queens. From 1964 to 2008, the Mets played their home games at Shea Stadium,
named after William Shea, the founder of the Continental League, a
proposed third major league, the announcement of which prompted their
admission as an NL expansion team.
Since 2009, the Mets have played their home games at Citi Field next to the site where Shea Stadium once stood.
In their inaugural season, the Mets
posted a record of 40-120, the worst regular-season record since MLB
went to a 162-game schedule. The team never finished better than
second-to-last in the 1960s until the Miracle Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 World Series, considered one of the biggest upsets in World Series history despite the Mets having won 100 games that season.
The Mets
have qualified for the postseason nine times, winning the World Series
twice (1969 and 1986) and winning five National League pennants (most
recently in 2000 and 2015).
Since 2020, the Mets have been owned by billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen who purchased the team for $2.4 billion.
As of the end of the 2021 season, the team's overall win-loss record is 4,551-4,927.
Today, The Grandma has been reading about noise, one of the big problems four our health in big cities.
Loud noise at work can damage workers hearing. This usually happens gradually and it may only be when the damage caused by noise combines with hearing loss due to ageing that people realize how impaired their hearing has become.
Why is dealing with noise important?
Noise at work can cause hearing damage that is permanent and disabling. This can be gradual, from exposure to noise over time, but damage can also be caused by sudden, extremely loud, noises. The damage is disabling in that it can stop people being able to understand speech, keep up with conversations or use the telephone.
Hearing loss is not the only problem. People may develop tinnitus (ringing, whistling, buzzing or humming in the ears), a distressing condition which can lead to disturbed sleep.
Noise at work can interfere with communications and make warnings harder to hear. It can also reduce a person’s awareness of his or her surroundings. These factors can lead to safety risks – putting people at risk of injury or death.
How can employers assess if they have a noise problem?
Employers will probably need to do something about the noise if any of the following apply:
-the noise is intrusive – like a busy street, a vacuum cleaner or a crowded restaurant, or worse than intrusive, for most of the working day;
-their workers have to raise their voices to have a normal conversation when about 2 metres apart for at least part of the day;
-their workers use noisy powered tools or machinery for more than half an hour a day;
-their sector is one known to have noisy tasks, e.g. construction, demolition or road repair, woodworking, plastics processing, engineering, textile manufacture, general fabrication, forging or stamping, paper or board making, canning or bottling, foundries, waste and recycling;
-there are noises due to impacts (such as hammering, drop forging, pneumatic impact tools etc.), explosive sources such as cartridge-operated tools or detonators, or guns.
Situations where employers will need to consider safety issues in relation to noise include where:
-they use warning sounds to avoid or alert to dangerous situations;
-working practices rely on verbal communications;
-there is work around mobile machinery or traffic.
How can employers control noise?
There are many ways of reducing noise and noise exposure. Nearly all businesses can decide on practical, cost-effective actions to control noise risks.
First, employers can think about how to remove the source of noise altogether, for example housing a noisy machine where it cannot be heard by workers. If that is not possible, they can investigate:
-using quieter equipment or a different, quieter process;
-engineering/technical controls to reduce at source the noise produced by a machine or process;
-using screens, barriers, enclosures and absorbent materials to reduce the noise on its path to the people exposed;
-designing and laying out the workplace to create quiet workstations;
-limiting the time people spend in noisy areas.
Choosing quieter equipment and machinery
Employers should consider noise alongside other factors (e.g. general suitability, efficiency) when hiring or buying equipment. They should compare the noise data from different machines, as this will help them to buy from among the quieter ones.
When should personal hearing protection be used?
Hearing protection should be issued to workers:
-where extra protection is needed above what has been achieved using noise control;
-for short-term protection, while other methods of controlling noise are being developed.
Employers should not use hearing protection as an alternative to controlling noise by technical and organizational means.
Workers to whom you provide hearing protection should receive training in how to use it.
Detecting damage to hearing
If the risk assessment indicates that there is a risk to health for workers exposed to noise, they should be placed under suitable health surveillance (regular hearing checks).
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