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Professional Certificate · Master's level · CPP-06
Occupational Risk Assessment
For: Safety coordinators, team leaders, managers of sites and small businesses, members of internal prevention bodies.
Learning outcomes
- Identify the hazards of a real work situation.
- Assess and rate occupational risks.
- Prioritise prevention measures.
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Risk assessment approach: work situations, hazards, exposure. |
| Week 2 | Risk rating and hierarchy of prevention measures: elimination of the hazard, substitution, collective protection, organisational measures and training, personal protection as a last resort. |
| Week 3 | Priority risks to examine: thermal and noise environments, manual handling, falls from height, machinery, chemicals, dust, psychosocial risks; simplified approaches for small units and the informal sector. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: risk assessment of a work situation (in the field with the organisation's written consent, or on a video case provided) and prioritised prevention measures. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): anonymised risk assessment of a work situation; online knowledge-check quiz (30%).
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Prevention Programme and Stakeholders
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-06C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Programme of prevention actions and monitoring of its implementation.
- Role of prevention stakeholders: employer, management, workers and their representatives, occupational health services, Inspection du travail (Labour Inspectorate), CSS.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Professional experience in a company or organisation assessed on application; no degree requirement beyond the application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Quality, Health, Safety and Environment, within a period set by the certificate regulations.