Prevention advisor - level 2 basic module

In this practice-based training session, you get the basics on themes such as occupational safety, ergonomics, hygiene and (psychosocial) health. We prepare you to obtain the certificate. Delivered by lecturers working in the field and based on real-life cases.

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  • 20 days
  • From€ 1,950.00or 9.659 PU
  • Dutch
  • Certificate valid in Belgium
  • Paid educational leave, SME portfolio, Training cheques, Sector fund

Why?

Every organisation with 20 or more employees must appoint a prevention advisor. In this role, you map out a health policy for your organisation and draw up a Global Prevention Plan and an Annual Action Plan. In this training session, you gain the necessary basic knowledge and skills in occupational safety, ergonomics, hygiene and (psychosocial) health.

It is the ideal stepping stone to the specialist module for prevention advisor level 2 (or 1). 


Het is de ideale opstap naar de specialisatiemodule van preventieadviseur niveau 2 (of 1).

What will you learn?

In this interactive training session, we alternate theory with practical exercises, individually or in groups. You learn hands-on what your tasks are and how best to carry them out. To prepare you for Industry 4.0*, we also tackle technical innovations and new safety risks. 

Maximum 30 participants.
Catering is provided and included in the price.

*4th industrial revolution: characterised by automation, autonomous machines, artificial intelligence, robotics, ...

Legal framework

You will get to know the relevant national and European wellbeing legislation and we will delve into the hierarchy of prevention.

The different actors in the wellbeing policy

From the internal to the external occupational health and safety service, the Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue, and the many other wellbeing actors: each has its role. You will get to know them all.

How, where and when should you apply which risk prevention measures?

The list of possible risk prevention measures is long, but do you also know which ones to use and when?

We guide you through the process of:

  • A wellbeing policy

  • Communication techniques

  • Practical communication and the secretariat of the Committee for Prevention and Protection at Work (CPPW)

  • Working with third parties, temporary agency workers, interns and young people

  • Welcoming employees

  • Work accidents, incidents, dangerous situations: reporting, recording, analysing and taking action

  • Work equipment: purchasing procedure, inventory and maintenance

  • Work equipment: commissioning, safety instruction card (SIC) and training

  • Internal and external official inspections (EDTC)

  • Personal protective equipment (PPE): needs, purchasing, commissioning, inventory, distribution, training and SIC, maintenance and official inspection

  • Collective protective equipment (CPE): what it is, hierarchy of prevention, needs, purchasing, commissioning, inventory, distribution, training and SIC, maintenance and official inspection

Physical, biological and chemical agents

Special risk prevention measures apply in workplaces with toxic substances. How do you make sure everything proceeds safely?

We look in more depth at:

  • Workplaces and occupational hygiene

  • Carcinogenic and toxic substances

  • Biological agents (e.g. tetanus, hepatitis A, legionella, COVID-19)

  • Chemical agents: inventory, risk assessment, safety instruction cards, training

  • Physical agents: noise, vibrations, thermal environmental factors

  • Asbestos, confined spaces, internal traffic plan

  • Employees’ health policy

  • Psychosocial aspects (basic)

  • Ergonomics: screen work, manual handling of loads

  • Health monitoring: risk post list, vaccinations, biological monitoring, occupational diseases, reintegration

  • Further reintegration, types of examination, role of the occupational physician, maternity protection, working in extreme temperatures (freezer rooms, heat, ...)

  • Emergency planning: First aid, fire, serious work accidents, aggression

  • Basic concepts of electricity, electrical safety and the General Regulations on Electrical Installations

Machine safety

You learn how to draw up a commissioning report and safety instruction card for a machine and what to look out for on temporary and mobile construction sites.

Risk analyses

What is a risk assessment and how do you go about drawing one up?

Result

After completing this course:

  • you master the basics of wellbeing and safety at work;

  • you are familiar with wellbeing legislation and all aspects of a practice-based wellbeing policy within your company;

  • you can identify, assess and safeguard risks individually or in a group;

  • you can roll out a risk prevention policy pragmatically, systematically and in a structured way.

Does your organisation have 20 employees or fewer?

If so, as the business owner you can take on the role of risk prevention advisor yourself. To do this, you can follow the training session 'Risk prevention advisor – basic level (level 3)'.

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For whom?

This training session is for anyone who wants to obtain the ‘Risk prevention advisor level 2’ certificate and holds a certificate of higher secondary education or higher secondary courses:

  • level 3 risk prevention advisors who want to deepen their knowledge of safety and wellbeing.

  • Employees who are allowed by their company to follow level 2 training and who will head the occupational health and safety service in a group B company.

  • Employees who are allowed by their company to follow level 2 training in order to act as deputy to a level 1 advisor in a group A company.  

What is stipulated by law?

By law, as a risk prevention advisor you must have the necessary knowledge of wellbeing at work: risk assessment, the coordination of risk prevention activities and the operation of the internal occupational health and safety committee (CPPW).

The required level of knowledge – 1, 2 or 3 – depends on the size of the company on the one hand and the risks employees run 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 on the list of the Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue
(FPS Employment) as a training provider for the basic training for risk prevention advisors (level 3).

Price

If your organisation is affiliated with Mensura External Occupational Health and Safety Service (ESPPW), you have prevention units available and your balance is sufficient, you can pay with these.

Subsidies

Thanks to our approvals by government departments and sector funds, we meet the conditions for numerous subsidies and funding options.

  • SME portfolio. Use these accreditation numbers in your application:

    • Members of Mensura External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work: Mensura EDPB - DV.O105072

    • non-members: Mensura CONSULT - DV.O101943

  • Training vouchers - Flanders and Wallonia

  • Sector fund:

    • Alimento

    • Constructiv

    • Volta

  • Paid educational leave / Flemish training leave

See also the general frequently asked questions, including about certification and payments >

Where and when do you want to take the course?

Register on our partner's website

This course is carefully organized by a partner. Take a look at their website and find out the dates on which the training will take place.

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