What does the Work Environment Act say?
A safety representative at a workplace is a person appointed to represent both regular and temporary staff in work environment issues. A safety representative is usually appointed by a local workers' organisation which is or is usually bound by a collective agreement in relation to the employer. In the absence of such an organisation at the workplace, the safety representative may be elected directly by the workers. According to the Working Environment Act, safety representatives must be appointed at all workplaces with 5 or more employees. The employer must be informed of the person appointed as safety representative. He or she has the right to training and leave to the extent necessary for the job, with pay.
Even large companies that have worked for a long time to ensure a good working environment can face challenges in dealing with problems and challenges in their daily work
Regardless of the size of the organisation and also how proactive you are in your work environment management, there will always be challenges. Ensuring a good working environment in the long term often requires skills, tools, methods and solutions. Good working conditions and a good working environment benefit everyone and are something that everyone in the workplace must contribute to achieving.
It can be about creating order and routines, agreeing on what applies and giving everyone a say, examining working conditions, assessing risks, taking action and following up health and safety management. This course will give you good knowledge to prepare you for your daily work in the field of health and safety. You can feel confident after this course that you have the tools you need to create the right procedures, assess risks and take the right action.
Kravkompetens offers Sweden's most popular
Occupational health and safety course Online
Kravkompetens has trained hundreds of safety representatives and we are proud to be able to contribute to creating a better climate in organisations around Sweden. As technology advances and under the current circumstances, we look to continue training companies in Sweden in both work environment and other industry-specific areas. In this online Better Work Environment course, which is aimed at ALL industries, you as a participant will get a good foundation to stand on in your daily work environment management. Take part in a very popular online training course in BAM and help create the right conditions in your organisation. New course part for 2021 deals with the Swedish Work Environment Authority's advice on how to navigate your work from home under COVID-19 and follow the Swedish Work Environment Authority's advice and recommendations.
Target group
BAM - Better Work Environment in the Food and Restaurant Industry is aimed at managers, supervisors, safety representatives and workers who, in their professional role, need knowledge about how to deal with work environment issues.
Purpose of the training
The participant will gain basic knowledge of the work environment and a good understanding of how the collaboration between employers, safety representatives and other employees in work environment issues should work. You will learn how to implement work environment improvements in your organisation. After the training you should feel confident that you have basic knowledge of how to detect and manage risks and work preventively, and how to find the right information.
Approved trainers for AFA insurance
This means that if you have a collective agreement and meet the requirements, you can get up to 70% of the cost subsidised to attend the training.
Conditions for applying for support
The companies and organisations that can apply for support are those in the private sector with collective agreements within the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, LO and PTK, and who have taken out insurance against occupational injury. Managers are eligible for both initial and continuing training. Managers and safety representatives who attend a training course together receive increased compensation.
The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, LO and PTK are investing SEK 75 million over three years in work environment training for Swedish companies, starting on 1 January this year. The background is that the parties want to create the conditions for good cooperation and dialogue in work environment management in Swedish workplaces. The compensation will be handled by AFA Försäkring.
Picks from course content:
- Laws & Regulations
- Responsibilities and roles
- Regulations of the Swedish Work Environment Authority (AFS)
- Safety representative
- O.S.A.- Organisational and social work environment (AFS 2015:4)
- Systematic work environment management (AFS 2001:1)
- Risks
- Risk analysis
- Mental Illness
- Ergonomics in the grocery store
- Working environment in a supermarket
- The working environment for women and men