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Regulation 131 Health surveillance, records and effects

(1) Without prejudice to section 22 of the Act, an employer shall -

(a) ensure that appropriate health surveillance is made available to those employees for whom a risk assessment referred to in Regulation 124 reveals a risk to their health, and

(b) without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a) -

(i) in the case of employees whose exposure exceeds an upper exposure action value, make available to them the services of a registered medical practitioner to carry out, or to have carried out on his or her responsibility, a hearing check, and

(ii) in the case of employees whose exposure exceeds a lower exposure action value, make available to them preventive audiometric testing.

(2) The purpose of hearing checks and audiometric tests referred to in paragraph (1) shall be to provide early diagnosis of any hearing loss due to noise and to assist in the preservation of hearing.

(3) An employer shall -

(a) ensure that -

(i) a health record in respect of each of the employer's employees wh

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