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8 Hearing Conservation Manual B. Responsibilities At IowaStateUniversity (ISU), employees, supervisors, Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S), and the Occupational Medicine Office (Occ Med) share the responsibility for ensuring workplace safety and meeting the requirements of the Hearing Conservation Program. These responsibilities are summarized below. Occ Med works in conjunction with the Health and Safety section of EH&S, to facilitate and maintain the Hearing Conservation Program. Employees Employees are responsible for completing a Hazard Inventory a nd ensuring that they wear hearing protection devices (HPD) when required. Supervisors Supervisors are responsible for implementing the Hearing Conservation Program requirements in their departments. A supervisor must report to EH&S any potential noise hazards and ensure that employees wear their hearing protection when required. Training employees on their workplace noise hazards and providing HPD to employees are two other areas of supervisory responsibility. Supervisor must also, ensure that noise hazard areas or equipment requiring hearing protection have signs or are labeled. Environmental Health and Safety EH&S is responsible for conducting exposure monitoring, notifying an employee and their supervisor of noise hazards, maintaining noise exposure records, and determining when ISU employees are included in the Hearing Conservation Program. EH&S will maintain Hazard Inventories. Occupational Medicine Department Occ Med is responsible for hearing examinations, training, and hearing-test record retention. Occ Med is also responsible for all aspects of audiometric testing and the medical surveillance program.