Micro-Credential for the implementation of occupational safety activities by Employer, Designated Worker or Employer's Representative

NA

The assessment process encompasses formative assessment and summative assessment.

Formative assessment includes monitoring the completion of work and participation in sessions with feedback to trainees on their performance.

Summative assessment includes individual and group work, as well as face-to-face participation (Completion of tasks, collaboration in activities carried out, relationships with colleagues, and punctuality).

It is intended that, at the end of the training course, trainees will have acquired the necessary skills to perform the functions of representative of the employer, employer or designated worker, in accordance with articles 77 and 81 of Law no. 102/2009, of September 10, in its current wording:

– Identify the applicable legal framework and the role of the employer or worker designated to carry out occupational safety activities and the employer’s representative.

– Know the general obligations of employers and workers.

– Identify the organization and operation of occupational health and safety services.

– Collaborate or develop the process of identifying professional risk factors, assessing and controlling risks.

– Know emergency, evacuation and first aid measures and act at the level of first intervention.

– Identify, promote and develop information and training actions for workers.

1. Legal and regulatory framework

 – General and specific legislation (national and European)

 – The Legal Regime for the Promotion of Safety and Health at Work

a) General principles of prevention

b) General obligations of the employer and worker

c) Consultation, training and information

d) Particularly vulnerable groups

e) Organization and functioning of occupational health and safety services

i. Modalities

ii. Main activities

a) Mandatory communications and notifications

b) Standardization

 – Public bodies with competence in matters of safety and health at work

2. Main concepts about safety and health at work

 – Workplace, material components of work, working conditions

 – Safety and health at work

 – Mental health and well-being at work

 – Danger (Risk factor) and professional risk

 – Assessment and control of professional risks

 – Prevention and protection

 – Ergonomics

 – Work accident and incident

 – Occupational illness

3. Main professional risks

 – Related to the work environment

a) Physical risks (noise, vibrations, temperature, humidity, lighting, ventilation, radiation, others)

b) Chemical risks (dust, vapors, gases, fibers, others)

c) Biological risks (viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites)

d) Psychosocial risks (stress, inadequate work organization, difficulty in reconciling family and professional life, harassment, others)

e) Biomechanical risks (extreme postures or body positions, inadequate application of force, repetitive movements, others)

 – Related to safety conditions

a) Fire, explosion or earthquake

b) Electrical

c) Machines and work equipment (mechanical risks)

d) Storage

e) Installations (falls from the same level and falls from a height, risks associated with cleaning operations, maintenance, others)

f) Risks arising from the development of simultaneous or successive activities in the same workplace – external entities

4. Work accidents and occupational illnesses

 – Specific legal framework

 – Work accidents and occupational illnesses: causes, consequences, direct and indirect costs, statistics

 – Compensation regime for work accidents and occupational diseases

 – Mandatory communications and participation

 – Methods for analyzing work accidents (e.g. RIAAT and Tree of Causes) and occupational diseases

5. Assessment and control of professional risks

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

 – The OiRA (Online Interactive Risk Assessment) tools

 – Risk assessment steps

a) Identification of hazards or professional risk factors

b) Identification of exposed workers and characterization of the workplace, identification of workers in more vulnerable situations

c) Risk estimation

d) Valuation of risks

 – Control of professional risks

a) Prevention and protection measures

i. Technical measures

ii. Organizational measures

iii. Training and information

iv. Collective and individual protective equipment

v. Safety signage

saw. Action in case of emergency, evacuation and first aid

b) Health surveillance (admission, periodic and occasional medical examinations)

c) Health promotion

6. Practical cases

 – Characterization of the employer’s activity

 – Analysis of statistics on occupational accidents and occupational diseases

 – Identification of risk factors, assessment and control of professional risks in the company (application of risk assessment methodologies – e.g. OiRA tool)

 – Risk assessment – critical analysis of risk assessment examples

 – Work Accidents and Occupational Illnesses – analysis and reporting

• - Attendance and Participation - 20.0%
• - Carrying out 4 (four) individual and group works - 80.0%

NAO