The Regulations impose duties on employers to protect workers who may be exposed to risk from exposure to vibration at work.
They apply to both hand- arm and whole-body vibration and include provisions covering: (a) action values and limit values for daily exposure to vibration; (b) risk assessment; (c) elimination or, where elimination is not reasonably practicable, reduction of exposure to vibration; (d) measures to reduce exposure to vibration to as low a level as is reasonably practicable; (e) actions to be taken at action values and limit values; (f) prohibition on exceeding limit values; (g) information, instruction and training; (h) health surveillance; and (i) consultation.
