FAQ​s

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Frequently Asked Questions

You may curious to know more about NRA but dont know where and to whom you need to ask. Fortunately, you encountered us! Here we provide you frequently asked questions about NRA. Hopefully this might ease you.

A. GENERAL

NRA is a short form for Noise Risk Assessment. Previously, prior new Regulations of Noise Exposure 2019, it was known as Noise Exposure Monitoring. Currently, NRA needs to be performed to comply latest government Regulation on Occupational Safety and Health Act (1994).

B. EMPLOYER

Basically all workplaces, installation or premises including workplaces on vehicle, vessel, aircraft; any tent or movable structures either on land, offshore, on the bed of or floating on any water.

To identify all employees who are likely to be exposed to excessive noise and obtaining relevant information to help formulate new measures to reduce the noise.

At the same time, it is vital to check the effectiveness of existing measures taken to reduce noise exposure, thus, assisting in the selection of suitable PHP.

Only Noise Risk Assessors which have been certified by DOSH can perform NRA exclusively. Kindly ensure his or her registration expiry status is valid during monitoring purpose.

Starting from 1st of June 2019, it needs to be performed for the first time for initial evaluation. Subsequent evaluation purposes need to be done after five years from the date of previous assessment. If there are any changes on processes or machine’s layout, the assessment need to be performed accordingly.

Yes, because each NRA report shall have a validity period up to 5 years only.

All necessary actions will be provided and communicated to you as per recommendations in your NRA report.

As long as your company has at least one criterion, as explained in question number 1 in Section B, the answer is yes.

We are focusing more on customer oriented when performing the NRA with you. This means we will emphasize more on our report documentation and presentation to explain the report in a more detailed and customer-friendly approach and relate it with relevant customer’s internal processes.
 
We will provide a compact, easy-to-read approach report with a modern outlook.

C. EMPLOYEE

According to latest DOSH’s Industry Code of Practice, Occupational Noise Related Hearing Disorders (ONRHD) are the most reported occupational disease in Malaysia now.
 
Since it is a preventable occupational disease, it is very important to evaluate the risk at the early stage of your hearing during working, which shall be conducted by your employer so that you know specifically how to respond and take appropriate actions towards the risk.
  1. Difficulty to understand other people’s talking.
  2. Demand others to repeat words or phrases when talking.
  3. Feeling uncomfortable in background noise or in heavy crowds.
  4. Avoidance of relatively high pitch sound production.
  5. Ringing in the ear, particularly at quiet places.
  6. Talking in a relatively excessive voice compared to others.

a) Noise sources having over 85 dB.

b) Working at nearby noise sources (less than 5 meters) for most of your working period.

c) Certain machines/ processes may produce unwanted noise such as (including but not limited to);

    • Drilling
    • Grinding
    • Punching
    • Cutting
    • Chiller
    • Sawing
    • Motorized Engine
    • Compressor
    • Blowing 
    • Additional machines/ processes implemented including alteration, adjusting, fine tuning, modifications, maintaining, synchronising and all related operational works done which may increase noise.