The Occupational Safety Course™

Content of the training:

• Common workplace and safety at work
• Monitoring occupational safety in the common workplace
• The actors in the common workplace
• How is responsibility for safety at work established?
• The role of the employer - top management, middle management, supervisors
• The role of the worker
• Responsibility sharing in temporary agency work
• Apprentices in the workplace
• The health and safety organisation is a cooperative organisation
• Health and safety committee
• Occupational health
• Induction, supervision, guidance
• Induction at the common workplace
• Identification of hazards and stresses
• Identification of hazards - exercises
• Stress factors in the common workplace
• Hazards in the common workplace
• Safety hazards at work and in the working environment
• Tools for hazard identification
• Risk assessment: consequence - probability
• Risk management
• Learning from harm, basics of root cause analysis
• The importance of safety observations
• Well-being at work
• Work behaviour
• Communication
• Threat of violence
• Basics of machinery and equipment safety (principles of machinery and equipment protection, separation from propulsion)
• Organisation of the working environment, basics of the 5S system
• Working safely in different situations (working with ladders, working with bogies, using a personal crane, using a crane and lifting accessories, using fall protection, working in confined spaces, electrical hazards, chemical safety)
• Environmental safety, the importance of environmentally responsible behaviour
• How to deal with accidents (emergency call, gas hazard)

On completion of the training, you will have received a theoretical introduction to safety at work and the relevant laws and regulations. You will have good basic skills to contribute to the development of a proactive safety culture in your workplace. After the training, your theoretical knowledge will have been tested and you will know the key issues related to safety at work.

The average length of an online course is 5 hours.