In-depth Why?
Every organisation employing staff is obliged to appoint one or more prevention advisors. In this role you determine a health policy for your organisation, create a global prevention plan and establish an annual action plan. In this training you acquire the relevant basic knowledge and skills relating to safety at work, ergonomics, hygiene and (psychosocial) health. This means you are well-informed when contributing to the well-being policy in your organisation.
Technical and challenging matters are taught clearly, allowing you to easily understand the subject and make a correct interpretation"Steven Vangesselen Vinkenbosch
What do you learn?
This training focuses on the practical execution of your tasks as a prevention advisor within your specific business context. During the training you are given the task of creating an annual action plan and you do an open-book exam. The training is designed to be modular based on the following aspects of well-being:
Prevention Policy
- The importance of welfare at work and a prevention policy.
- The tasks, coherence and responsibility of those involved in welfare at work.
- The objectives and structure of a dynamic risk management system (DRMS).
- The role and tasks of the Internal Department for Prevention and Protection at Work.
- Legislative structure and components and the ability to look things up in legislation.
- Using obligatory documents and developing a filing system.
- Establishing an annual action plan based on the SMART principle.
Risk analysis
- Various methods for a risk analysis.
- Launching and implementing a general risk analysis.
- Understanding the importance of teamwork during a risk analysis.
- The hierarchy of preventative measures.
- Identifying and analysing priority risks, and proposing preventive measures.
Fire
- The importance van fire prevention, fire fighing and evacuation.
- The operation of key tools for fire detection, alarm, fighting and evacuation.
- The basic principles in explosion safety.
- The fire triangle.
- The key fire risks and measures.
- The various documents in a fire prevention dossier.
- Establishing a procedure and instructions for fire and evacuation.
- Conducting a tour for fire and evacuation.
- Organising an evacuation exercise.
Health
- The importance of health and a preventive health policy for an organisation.
- A number of options within a preventive health policy.
- The tasks of the prevention advisor-occupational physician.
- The content and management of documents relating to health supervision.
- Making the connection between work stations, risks and health supervision.
- Implementing the procedure relating to maternity protection.
- Organising emergency assistance within the company.
- The importance of a policy relating to psychosocial well-being.
- The key psychosocial risks and their consequences.
- Satisfying legal obligations..
Safety at work
- The importance of a purchasing policy for work equipment.
- The necessary steps when buying and commissioning equipment.
- Drafting a commissioning report for a piece of (simple) equipment.
- The key risks with electricity, potential measures and legal requirements.
- The content of the authority declarations BA4 and BA5.
- Understanding and organising inspections and controls.
- The importance, duties, required steps and use of standard documents when working with third parties.
- Importance, duties and required steps in receiving agency workers and creating a work-station document.
- The hierarchy of preventative measures, their application and implementation of collective protective equipment (CPE).
- The importance of a phased approach to personal protective equipment (PPE), the hierarchy of preventive measures, the key applications and information gathering.
- The importance of measures when working at a height, the key control points when working with ladders and (simple) scaffolding and the requirements when working with elevated platforms.
Ergonomics
- The importance of welfare at work and a prevention policy.
- The tasks, coherence and responsibility of those involved in welfare at work.
- The objectives and structure of a dynamic risk management system (DRMS).
- The role and tasks of the Internal Department for Prevention and Protection at Work.
- Legislative structure and components and the ability to look things up in legislation.
- Using obligatory documents and developing a filing system.
- Establishing an annual action plan based on the SMART principle.
Environment
- The importance of respecting the environmental obligations of an organisation.
- Know and assess the key environmental aspects (soil, water, air, waste).
- The key administrative obligations.
- Activities requiring a permit.
- Assessing whether the organisation needs a permit.
- Implementing sustainability.
Occupational hygiene
- The activities concerning occupational hygiene.
- The phases in tacking the different risks in the field of occupational hygiene.
- Gathering information relating to specific guidelines and measures.
- The content and structure of a Safety Data Sheet (SDS).
- Hazard labels, risks and key control measures for dangerous and chemical substances.
- Compiling an inventory of hazardous substances.
- The importance of an asbestos inventory and the key control measures for asbestos.
- The risks of noise and the most important measures.
Extra: access to MyStressCoach
This personal stress meter assesses your individual experience of stress. You complete the questionnaire anonymously and receive a report with tailored tips.
This course is part of our Impact-offer
Those wishing to go deeper into a specific topic will find what they are looking for in our Impact training. Using a mix of experience-based, social and digital learning we ensure a lasting impact.
Result?
In this basic training you become knowledgeable and well equipped to help shape and support the well-being policy in your organisation. If you pass the exam, you will receive the certificate that is valid in Belgium. In concrete terms, as health and safety officer you are capable of:
- Devising and implementing a sustainable prevention policy and annual action plan;
- Carrying out risk analyses relating to safety at work and proposing the required preventative measures;
- Organising fire prevention, fire fighting and evacuation;
- Integrating a preventive health policy in the welfare policy at your organisation;
- Summarising the key psychosocial risks and relevant legal obligations;
- Responding to the ergonomic needs within your organisation;
- Implementing an effective and preventive policy relating to hygiene at work in your organisation.
Mandatory refresher courses
If you pass this training, you will receive the certificate prevention advisor level 3. However, under the welfare act an annual refresher course is compulsory. With our training ‘Refresher course prevention advisor - basic level (level 3)’ you can refresh your knowledge and skills and stay up to date with new techniques.
The instructor allows time to personally answer participants’ questions."Karen Peeters Smart Retail Association Invest
For whom?
This training is tailored to prevention advisors and managers who wish to acquire the basic knowledge and skills (level 3) and achieve the certificate, but not requiring the extra training level 1 or 2.
What does the law say?
Legally speaking, as a prevention advisor you must have the necessary knowledge of welfare at work: risk analysis, the coordination of prevention activities and the operation of the internal prevention committee.
The required level of knowledge – I, II or III – depends, on the one hand, on the size of the company and the risks faced by employees on the other. Based on these criteria companies are divided into 4 categories: A, B, C and D. More info? Take a look on the FPS Employment, Labour & Social Dialogue website.
Mensura is listed by the Federal Public Service on Employment, Labour, and Social Dialogue (FPS ELSD) as a training institution for the basic training prevention advisor (level 3).
Price
The prices depends on how you follow the training. Digital training material is included in the price. A printed course delivered to the home costs 40 euros (excl. VAT). If your organisation is affiliated with Mensura External Department for Prevention and Protection at Work (EDPPW), then you will receive a discount. Do you have sufficient prevention units available, then you can use these to pay.
Subsidies and financing options
We qualify for all kinds of subsidies and financing options because we are certified by many government agencies and sector funds.
- SME-Portfolio (in Flanders). Use these certification numbers in your request:
- members of Mensura External Department for Prevention for Prevention and Protection: Mensura EDPB - DV.O105072
- non-members: Mensura CONSULT - DV.O101943
- Training cheques
- Sector fund
- Alimento
- Constructiv
- Paid educational leave / Flemish training leave
A tremendously instructive and exciting course. And a source of information, ensuring our company is up to date"Tania Audiffret Gejaco
