Presentation
All organisations are required to provide health and safety training to their employees from the start of their employment, regardless of the type or duration of their contract. In this context, ensuring that employees receive appropriate preventive training is essential to promoting safe and healthy working conditions.
This course provides participants with the knowledge needed to understand the main occupational risks associated with office-based work, particularly those related to the use of display screen equipment (DSE). It also helps raise awareness of the potential health consequences of these risks and of the preventive measures that can be applied to minimise them.
Qualifications
Upon successful completion of the training programme, participants will receive the Certificate of Completion for the course Specific Risk Prevention in the Workplace: Offices and Office Environments, issued by Bureau Veritas Business School.
Who is it for?
This course is aimed at employers and employees whose professional activity is carried out in offices or similar working environments, as well as those who may work in this type of setting in the future.
It is particularly suitable for professionals whose daily work involves the use of display screen equipment (DSE), whether in offices or comparable workplaces, and who need to identify workplace risk factors related to tasks, equipment, and working conditions, as well as apply the appropriate preventive or corrective measures.
What will you achieve through the course?
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the basic concepts related to Occupational Health and Safety, including prevention, risk factors, occupational risks, work-related harm, and preventive techniques.
- Identify the key aspects to be considered in an office workstation and recognise the different risk factors associated with working with display screen equipment.
- Analyse, detect, and prevent the main risks present in office-based work, including those related to display screen equipment, safety conditions, environmental and hygiene conditions, and ergonomic and psychosocial factors.
- Understand the health consequences derived from exposure to workplace risks in office environments.
- Apply preventive measures to improve safety, comfort, and wellbeing in office-based roles.
Syllabus
1. Basic Concepts of Occupational Health and Safety
Basic framework of occupational risk prevention
Relationship between work and health
Risk factors and occupational risks
Work-related harm
Basic regulatory framework for occupational health and safety
Fundamental rights and duties in workplace health and safety
2. Risks Associated with Office Work and Display Screen Equipment
Working with display screen equipment: causes of risk and associated hazards
Postural fatigue
The working environment
Mental workload and exposure to psychosocial risk factors
General risks in office environments