Responsibility for the work environment rests with the employer, but the work is done by managers, safety representatives and employees together. The Work Environment Authority's provisions on systematic work environment management require risks to be investigated, assessed, acted on and followed up – continuously, not once a year.
Three roles that need the same foundation
The manager
Has been given work environment duties and needs to know what they mean in practice.
The safety representative
Represents the employees, takes part in planning and can demand action – and stop dangerous work.
Management
Is responsible for the duties being given to someone with the mandate, the knowledge and the resources.
This is what we cover
- The Work Environment Act and the Authority's provisions, in the parts that govern the daily work
- Systematic work environment management: investigate, assess, act and follow up
- Distribution of duties and work environment responsibility – what it takes for a distribution to hold
- Organisational and social work environment: workload, working hours and victimisation
- Near misses and accidents: reporting, investigation and measures that prevent a repeat
A workshop with your own documents
If you choose the instructor-led format on site with you, we go through your existing routines, risk assessments and action plans during the day. You get a prioritised action list to work from instead of a binder for the shelf.
Common questions about work environment training
Questions we get from managers and safety representatives planning their training.
- Is BAM a legal requirement?
- No law requires BAM specifically, but the employer must make sure managers and safety representatives have sufficient knowledge. Many collective agreements point to BAM or an equivalent as the basic training.
- How often does the training have to be repeated?
- The basic training rarely needs redoing from scratch, but the knowledge has to be kept current when rules, operations or roles change. How long a certificate stays valid is stated on each course.
- Can managers and safety representatives attend together?
- Yes, and it is usually better. Cooperation gets concrete when both sides have heard the same thing at the same time and can discuss their own examples during the course.
Want to know where you stand?
Get in touch and we will go through your routines and suggest the level your managers and safety representatives need.
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