MCO 6260.3 - Marine Corps Hearing Conservation Program

Scope

MCO 6260.3 establishes the Marine Corps Hearing Conservation Program (HCP). The order treats noise injury and hearing loss as a continuing concern for the Marine Corps and places the duty to establish and maintain HCP requirements on commands at all levels.

Noise injury and hearing loss is a continuing concern for the Marine Corps. The Hearing Conservation Program (HCP) requires commands at all levels to establish and maintain HCP requirements per references (a) through (w).

Quoted from the document's opening section.

Audience

• Commanders at every level. The order places the establish-and-maintain duty on commands.
• Marines working in noise-hazard environments the program exists to protect.
• Medical staff administering hearing readiness and recording hearing conservation data.
• Leaders monitoring section medical readiness. The portal's leader readiness page lists this order among its references.

Content scope

Repo evidence names the program without chapter detail. Command HCP requirements ride on the order's references (a) through (w), which the repo does not enumerate.

Operative content

• Commands at all levels establish and maintain Hearing Conservation Program requirements, per the order's opening section.

Connection to higher policy

The order rests on references (a) through (w) per its opening section. Repo evidence does not name them, and no DoD or SECNAV parent for this order appears in the portal.

Connection to Marine Corps doctrine and lower policy

• DD Form 2216, Hearing Conservation Data, edition 2025-02-05, listed in the portal's DoD forms index.
• DoDI 6025.19 Individual Medical Readiness and DoDI 6490.03 Deployment Health. Co-references on the leader readiness page citing this order.

Status

Current revision MCO 6260.3A, published 2016-09-26, listed Current on MCPEL. Source PDF on file from the 2026-04-28 archive snapshot. One caution. The leader medical and dental readiness page labels MCO 6260.3 as Marine Corps Dental Health Readiness. MCPEL assigns 6260.3 to the Hearing Conservation Program. For dental readiness claims, verify against DoDI 6025.19 rather than this order.