EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATIVE – e-Learning Training Course

The “Employer’s Representative – eLearning training” course enables employees to acquire basic and essential knowledge to enable them to properly perform their duties as a member of the company responsible for monitoring the activities of the external Occupational Health and Safety services (in accordance with article 77 of Law 102/2009, amended by Law 3/2014).

National legislation stipulates that (some*) companies are obliged to appoint (at least*) 1 suitably trained employee to represent them in monitoring the activities of external Occupational Health and Safety services.
SEPRI’s course responds to this need.

*See the answer to the question “When should the company promote Employer Representative training?”.

When should the company promote the Employer Representative training?

National legislation stipulates that occupational safety must be promoted internally in any company, and it is the employer’s responsibility to organize and plan the occupational safety and health service.

Employer Representative training applies in the following situations:

1. In joint or external Occupational Health and Safety services, the employer must designate 1 suitably trained* worker in each establishment to represent them in the proper execution of prevention activities;

2. For a company, establishment or group of establishments up to 50km away from the largest, which employs a maximum of 9 workers and whose activity is not high risk, occupational safety activities can be carried out directly by the Employer himself if he has the appropriate training* and is usually in the establishment, or by one or more workers designated by him, who also have the appropriate training and have the time and means necessary for the purpose.

*What is adequate training? This is a course which enables the acquisition of basic skills in the field of occupational safety and hygiene, health, ergonomics, the environment and work organization, and which has been previously validated by ACT.
This course presented by SEPRI aims to meet this need.

COURSE SYLLABUS

Module 1 – Basic Concepts of Safety, Hygiene and Health at Work

• Introduction to occupational risk prevention:

• Basic concepts;

• Prevention;

• Protection;

• Risk/danger.

• Basic legal framework for occupational risk prevention:

• Historical and legal framework – Law 3/2014 link with the labor code;

• Occupational illness.

Module 2  – General Risks and Prevention

• Risks related to safety conditions;

• Risks related to the working environment;

• Workload, fatigue and job dissatisfaction;

• Elementary risk control systems;

• Basics of emergency action and evacuation;

• First aid;

• Monitoring workers’ health.

Module 3 – Basic Elements of Risk Prevention Management

• Organizing prevention in the company;

• Public bodies related to safety, hygiene and health at work.

Module 4 – Specific Risks and their Prevention in the Company’s Sector of Activity

• Characterization of the sector;

• Claims and/or morbidity statistics for the sector;

• Applicable legislation;

• Specific risks;

• Prevention of specific risks.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The aim of this course is to provide the Employer’s Representative (in accordance with Article 77 of Law 102/2009, as amended by Law 3/2014) with basic knowledge and essential training to enable them to properly carry out their duties as a member of the company responsible for monitoring the activities of external occupational health and safety services.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

At the end of the course, trainees should be able to:

1. Know the basic concepts of health and safety at work;

2. Identify the legal framework for occupational risk prevention;

3. Collaborating in the assessment and control of general and specific company risks;

4. Developing occupational risk assessment processes;

5. Assess the risks and establish the appropriate prevention measures;

6. Use the basic documentation used in companies that is related to risk prevention (accident reports, safety manuals, assessment results);

7. Identify and get to know the most important national and international public bodies related to Safety, Hygiene and Health at Work;

8. Establishing a conceptual and legislative model for Occupational Risk Prevention in the company’s sector of activity.

WHO IS THE COURSE AIMED AT?

1. Workers in small and medium-sized companies, assigned to perform basic-level occupational safety duties, whose sector of activity is not considered high risk, in accordance with the provisions of Law 102/2009, of September 10, amended and republished by Law 3/2014, of January 28.

2. Senior Technicians and Occupational Safety Technicians who wish to carry out scientific and technical updating through continuous training, and who have worked in the field for a minimum of two years during the validity of their professional title.

3. Anyone interested in acquiring professional knowledge and skills in the field of occupational safety.

CERTIFICATION

On successful completion of the training, a vocational training certificate will be issued via the SIGO platform, in accordance with Ministerial Order no. 474/2010 of July 8. This certification will also be registered in the trainee’s Qualifica Passport.

HOURS

35 hours