Prevention advisor - basic level (level 3)

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.

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:

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.  

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 materials are included in the price.

If your organisation is affiliated with Mensura External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work (ESPPW) and you have prevention units, you can pay with these as long as your balance is sufficient.

Subsidies

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 - Flanders and Wallonia

• Sector fund

  • ​Alimento 

  • Constructiv

• Paid educational leave / Flemish training leave

Also check out the general frequently asked questions, including on certification and payments >