Safety starts at the top: what you need to know as a manager
As a manager, what are your legal responsibilities regarding safety at work? How do you recognise and respond to risks within your team? The ‘Safety in the Workplace for Managers’ course gives you clear and practice-oriented answers to those questions.
What will you learn in the course?
The training course is structured around the manager’s 9 legal responsibilities as outlined in the Codex on well-being at work (Dutch - French). The training course starts from recognisable practical situations and uses concrete exercises, such as risk recognition using realistic situation sketches. This helps you learn how small actions – such as clear instructions or a simple intervention – can make a big difference.
Prevention adviser and lecturer Rudy Smedts: “As a manager, you can think to yourself, ‘But I do read the legislation.’ But practice shows that it is often too general and complex to apply correctly without interpretation. That is exactly where this training course makes a difference.”
You will learn, among other things:
what well-being at work is and what your specific responsibilities are
what your role is in risk analyses and accident investigation
how to ensure the correct use of personal protective equipment
how to integrate safety into your daily team meetings and work structure
how to hold employees accountable for their behaviour and encourage a safety culture
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What makes open training valuable?
Disclaimer: this open training is only available in Dutch and French. If you are interested in an English open training, please contact us on learnconnect@mensura.be or book an inhouse training.
The training course has long existed at Mensura and is now also available in an open offer for anyone who wants to join individually. That open nature provides a unique learning environment: participants from different sectors can exchange experiences. Rudy: “A foreperson from a construction company can learn a surprising amount from a team leader from an IT company, and vice versa. That cross-pollination often provides new insights and inspiration.”
The interactive nature also makes all the difference. Post-it exercises, discussion moments, and case studies ensure engagement. And although the programme has a fixed structure, the content is partly tailored to the profile of the participants. “We ask who is in the group in advance and adjust the exercises where possible. That’s how you maintain relevance and recognisability for everyone,” Rudy said.
'Safety and well-being at work isn’t just some extra task to be added to the pile. You have to integrate it into your daily work. In this course, you’ll learn how to do that in the most natural and logical way.'
Rudy Smedts
Prevention adviser and lecturer at Mensura
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Rudy Smedts
Expert in occupational safety
As a bio-engineer and prevention adviser level 1, I have built up my experience in a range of different organisations. I combine my knowledge of work safety with leadership and management. I believe that you have to view the policy applied on safety as an integral part of a sound business policy. Hence my interest in the policy-related aspects of prevention, integrating aspects of wellbeing into care systems, aspects of behaviour and communication, skills development, wellbeing culture in organisations and coaching of prevention advisers.
As a bio-engineer and prevention adviser level 1, I have built up my experience in a range of different organisations. I combine my knowledge of work safety with leadership and management. I believe that you have to view the policy applied on safety as an integral part of a sound business policy. Hence my interest in the policy-related aspects of prevention, integrating aspects of wellbeing into care systems, aspects of behaviour and communication, skills development, wellbeing culture in organisations and coaching of prevention advisers.