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This Guidance Notes is prepared by the Occupational Safety and Health Branch of the Labour Department This edition October 2005 This Guidance Notes is issued free of charge and can be obtained from offices of the Occupational Safety and Health Branch, Labour Department. It can also be downloaded from .hk/eng/public/os/C/NoiseGN.htm. For enquiries about addresses and telephone numbers of the offices, please call 2559 2297. It may be freely reproduced except for advertising, endorsement or commercial purposes. Please acknowledge the source as ‘Guidance Notes on Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Noise at Work) Regulation’, published by the Labour Department. 1 CONTENTS Page Introduction 3 Section 2 Interpretation 4 Section 3 Assessment of Noise Exposure 5 Section 4 Ear Protection Zones 8 Section 5 Specification of Distance for Noisy Machines or Tools 9 Section 6 Ear Protection 10 Section 7 Approval of Ear Protectors 12 Section 8 Reduction of Noise Exposure 12 Section 9 Maintenance and Use of Equipment 15 Section 10 Provision of Information to Employees 17 Section 11 Exemption 18 Section 12 Offences 18 Appendix 1 List of Common Noisy Machinery