Employer Representative, Employer and Designated Worker

Module 1 – Legal and Normative Framework

• General and specific legal provisions and others (national and European).
• General principles of prevention.
• General obligations of the employer and the worker.
• Organization and operation of occupational safety and health services: modalities, main activities, and minimum operational guarantee.
• Mandatory communications and participations (e.g., single report, biological agents, hazardous chemicals, and noise).
• Particularly vulnerable groups.
• Applicable standardization.
• Public bodies with competence in occupational safety and health.

Module 2 – Main Concepts of Occupational Safety and Health

• Workplace, material work components, working conditions.
• Occupational safety and health.
• Risk factors (hazards) and occupational risk.
• Assessment and control of occupational risks,
• Prevention and protection.
• Ergonomics
• Accident, work incident.
• Occupational/work-related disease.

Module 3 – Occupational Safety and Health Management – OHS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NP ISO 45001)

• Occupational safety and health policy.
• Responsibilities, communication, consultation, and participation of worker representatives, or in their absence, the workers themselves.
• Process(es) of risk factor analysis, risk assessment and control, and identification of improvement opportunities for occupational safety and health.
• Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle.
• Audits.

Module 4 – Main Occupational Risk Factors

Risk factors related to the work environment:

• Physical (e.g., noise, vibrations, temperature, lighting, ventilation, and radiation);
• Chemical (e.g., hazardous, carcinogenic, mutagenic, and toxic for reproduction);
• Biological (e.g., bacteria, fungi, and viruses);
• Psychosocial (e.g., stress, inadequate work organization, work/family conflict, and harassment);
• Biomechanical (e.g., extreme body postures or positions, inadequate force application, task repetitiveness, and pace).

Risk factors related to safety conditions:

• Fire or explosion;
• Electrical;
• Mechanical;
• Storage;
• Installations

Module 5 – Occupational Accidents and Diseases

• Specific legal framework.
• Statistics on occupational accidents and diseases.
• Mandatory communications and participations.

Module 6 – Assessment and Control of Occupational Risks

Risk assessment methods: quantitative, semi-quantitative, and qualitative.

Stages of risk assessment:

• Identification of hazards or occupational risk factors;
• Identification of exposed workers and characterization of the workplace;
• Risk estimation;
• Risk valuation.
• Control of occupational risks

Prevention and protection measures:

• Technical measures;
• Organizational measures;
• Training and Information;
• Personal protective equipment;

Safety signage.

• Basic notions of emergency action, evacuation, and first aid.
• Health surveillance (admission, periodic, and occasional medical examinations).
• Health promotion.

Module 7 – PRACTICAL CASES

• Characterization of an entity’s activity;
• Analysis of labor accident and occupational disease statistics;
• Identification of risk factors, assessment, and control of occupational risks;