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Day 1 – 9.00am to 5.00pm

1. Pre-Test Assessment
2. Introduction: Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC

• Legislative Requirements - European Community
• European Pillar of Social Rights
• Safety and Health Legislation
• EU National laws by Member States unity.
• EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2021-2027

• Definition: Key priorities and actions for improving workers’ health and safety
• By way of addressing rapid changes in the economy, demography, and work patterns.
• Strategic priorities

• Involving EU institutions
• Member States
• Social partners and other stakeholders
• Focuses on three key priorities:
• Anticipating and managing change in the context of green, digital, and demographic transitions.
• Improving the prevention of work-related accidents and diseases and striving towards a Vision Zero approach to work-related deaths.
• Increasing preparedness to respond to current and future health crises.

• Implementing the framework — a key role for EU-OSHA

• Enforcement
• Social dialogue
• Funding
• Awareness-raising
• Data collection

3. European Directives on Safety and Health at Work

• The OSH Framework Directive
• Workplaces, equipment, signs, personal protective equipment
• Exposure to chemical agents and chemical safety
• Exposure to physical hazards
• Exposure to biological agents
• Provisions on workload, ergonomical and psychosocial risks
• Sector specific and worker related provisions

4. Individual directives tailor the principles of the Framework Directive to:

• Specific tasks (e.g. manual handling of loads)
• Specific hazards at work (e.g. exposure to dangerous substances or physical agents)
• Specific workplaces and sectors (e.g. temporary work sites, extractive industries, fishing vessels)
• Specific groups of workers (e.g. pregnant women, young workers, workers with a fixed duration employment contract)
• Certain work-related aspects (e.g. organisation of working time)

5. Directive 89/391 - OSH "Framework Directive"
   The introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work - "Framework Directive".

       Framework Directive brought about considerable innovation including the following:

• The term ‘working environment’ was set in accordance with International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 155 and defines a modern approach taking into account technical safety as well as general prevention of ill-health.
• The Directive aims to establish an equal level of safety and health for the benefit of all workers (the only exceptions are domestic workers and certain public and military services).
• The Directive obliges employers to take appropriate preventive measures to make work safer and healthier.
• The Directive introduces as a key element the principle of risk assessment and defines its main elements (e.g. hazard identification, worker participation, introduction of adequate measures with the priority of eliminating risk at source, documentation and periodical re-assessment of workplace hazards).
• The new obligation to put in place prevention measures implicitly stresses the importance of new forms of safety and health management as part of general management processes.

6. Occupational Safety and Health Administration – OSHA European Community Directives

• OSH is good for business

• Improved productivity through less sickness absence
• Cutting healthcare costs
• Keeping older workers in employment
• Stimulating more efficient working methods and technologies
• Reducing the number of people who have to cut their hours to care for a family member

• Improving compliance with OSH regulations

• Legal enforcement of regulations
• Supply chain influences
• External OSH services
• Social or sectoral norms
• Financial support.

• Dangerous substances

• Allergies
• Skin diseases
• Cancers
• Reproductive problems and birth defects
• Respiratory diseases
• Poisoning

• Digitalisation of work

• Advance robotics and AI
• Worker management through AI
• Digital platform work
• Smart digital systems
• Remote work

• OSHA Act - Amendments January 2022
• Responsibilities
• Standards and harmonized standards
• Testing and assessment
• Introduction to Notified bodies
• Resources

7. Compliance to 2006/42/EC Directives

• Machinery: Compulsory and Mandory
• Requirements within the Machinery Directive
• CE Marking and Legal obligation
• Compilation of the machine’s Technical Construction File
• Raising of a Declaration of Conformity or Declaration of Incorporation
• Testing Methods and Procedures
• Technical Construction File for both Europe EU and non- Europe EU businesses
• Low Voltage Directive
• Harmonized standards
• Technical documents
  • Technical file contents
  • Technical file format

8. Workplaces, Equipment, Signs, Personal Protective Equipment

• OSH Directives

• Directive 2009/104/EC – use of work equipment
• The Directive lays down minimum health and safety requirements for the use of work equipment in the workplace.
• Directive 99/92/EC - risks from explosive atmospheres
• The Directive establishes minimum requirements for improving the safety and health protection of workers potentially at risk from explosive atmospheres.
• Directive 92/58/EEC - safety and/or health signs
• Directive 92/58/EEC lays down the requirements for safety and health signs at work that employers must provide where workers are still at risk despite other preventive measures.
• Directive 89/656/EEC - use of personal protective equipment
• The Directive lays down minimum requirements for the use of personal protective equipment used by workers at work, which are necessary when risks cannot be sufficiently controlled by technical and organisational measures.
• Directive 89/654/EEC - workplace requirements
• The Workplace Directive provides for minimum requirements for workplaces covering issues such as traffic routes, workroom dimensions and indoor air quality.

• OSH Related Aspects

• Regulation 2023/1230/EU - machinery
• This Regulation lays down health and safety requirements for the design and construction of machinery, placed on the European market.
• Regulation 2023/988/EU - general product safety
• Regulation (EU) 2016/425 on personal protective equipment
• Directive 2014/34/EU - equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres
• The ATEX directive sets forth uniform rules across the European Union for the making available on the market and putting into service of equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres.
• Directive 2014/68/EU - pressure equipment
• Directive 2014/68/EU applies to the design, manufacture and conformity assessment of Directive 2014/29/EU - simple pressure vessels

Day 2: 9.00am to 5.00pm

9. Exposure to Chemical Agents and Chemical Safety

• OSH Directives

• Directive 2019/1831 - indicative occupational exposure limit values
• Directive 2009/148/EC - exposure to asbestos at work
• Directive 2006/15/EC - indicative occupational exposure limit values
• Directive 2004/37/EC - carcinogens, mutagens or reprotoxic substances at work
• Directive 2000/39/EC - indicative occupational exposure limit values
• Directive 98/24/EC - risks related to chemical agents at work

10. Exposure to Physical Hazards

• OSH directives

• Directive 2013/59/Euratom - protection against ionising radiation
• Directive 2013/35/EU - electromagnetic fields
• Directive 2006/25/EC - artificial optical radiation
• Directive 2003/10/EC - noise
• Directive 2002/44/EC - vibration

11. Provisions on Workload, Ergonomic and Psychosocial Risks

• OSH Directives

• Directive 90/270/EEC - display screen equipment (workstations and worker)
• Directive 90/269/EEC - manual handling of loads

• OSH Related Aspects

• Directive 2019/1158 - work-life balance for parents and careers
• Directive 2019/1152/EU - Transparent and predictable working conditions
• Directive 2003/88/EC - working time

12. Line Visit – Hazards Evaluation

• Hazards – Aspects and Impacts
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Severity
• Prevention
• Substitute
• Controls
• PPEs

13. Machinery Risk Assessment - OSH

• Identifying and applying standards
• Responsibilities
• The Machinery Directive EHSRs
• Mechanical and electrical risk assessment and safety requirement
• Plant visit: Practical examples

14. ATEX Compliance and Risk Assessment - OSH

• Practical risk assessments
• Equipment groups
• Certification requirements
• Identifying and applying standards
• Zoning and ignition hazard assessment
• Dusts and vapours
• Requirements for electrical and mechanical equipment
• Notified Body Certification
• DSEAR

15. Electrical Equipment Safety - OSH

• Electrical safety and EMC
• Low Voltage Directive
• Radio Equipment Directive
• Identifying and applying standards
• Testing and assessment
• Environmental requirements - Eco-Design, WEEE, RoHS, REACH
• Technical documentation, declarations and certificates

16. Buying Machinery – Safety Compliance - OSH

• Machinery specifications
• Machinery Directive requirements
• Supplier questions
• Documentation
• Dealing with partly completed machinery and components
• In-service obligations
• Modifications
• Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER)

17. Environmental Directives - OSH

• Eco-Design framework and specific regulations
• Performance measurements
• Banned substances
• Directives and regulations
• Technical documentation and evidence of compliance
• Enforcement
• Producer registration
• Batteries Directive

18. Conclusion

• Training summary
• Post Test
• Q and A session
• Training Evaluation