Occupational Risks Control: online course with internship agreement
Occupational Risks Control teaches you to apply EU health and safety law in practice. You will run a five-step risk assessment, choose controls in the right order, sequence a lockout/tagout, assess manual handling and screen workstations, investigate incidents and calculate LTIFR. It is aimed at newcomers to EHS work. The course runs 100 % online for 180 days, includes an internship agreement, and costs €200.
- 180 days of access
- 100 % online, at your own pace
- Level: beginner · No prior OSH experience required
- Assessment: 10 quizzes (50 questions) and a final project
- Internship agreement included
- Certificate with a verifiable QR code
- Languages: Spanish, English, French
- Price: €200
Who it is for
- Newcomers aiming for a junior EHS or health and safety coordinator role
- Supervisors in warehousing, maintenance, cleaning or facility services who handle safety duties
- Office, HR or operations staff asked to coordinate risk assessments or incident reports
- People working across several EU countries who need the common legal framework
What do you need to start?
Prior knowledge
- No prior knowledge of health and safety or law is needed
- Comfortable reading official texts such as EU directives in English
- Basic arithmetic for exposure values and frequency rates
Software and equipment
- A computer or tablet with an internet connection
- The materials name no specialist software, accounts or licences
What you'll be able to do
- Explain how Directive 89/391/EEC is transposed into national health and safety law in each member state
- Carry out a five-step risk assessment and record actions with a named owner and a deadline
- Apply the hierarchy of controls and identify when PPE is used before more effective measures
- Compare measured noise exposure with EU action and limit values to determine the legal duty
- Sequence a lockout/tagout that isolates every hazardous energy source, including stored and gravity-fed energy
- Assess manual handling tasks against the four Annex I categories of Directive 90/269/EEC
- Assess a new scheduling or monitoring tool under the framework directive's risk assessment and consultation duties
- Run a blameless incident investigation, draw a bow-tie diagram and calculate LTIFR
Skills you will practise
- Five-step risk assessment
- Hierarchy of controls
- Lockout/tagout (LOTO)
- Directive 89/391/EEC
- Manual handling assessment
- DSE workstation assessment
- Incident investigation
- Bow-tie analysis
- LTIFR calculation
- ISO 45001:2018
Syllabus
- The EU framework: Directive 89/391/EEC — How the EU framework directive sets common duties and why each member state's national law still looks slightly different.
- How workplaces harm people — The vocabulary and mental model for reconstructing what actually happened in an incident, rather than relying on the version you assume.
- Risk assessment, EU style: the five-step method — Leading a risk assessment from start to finish and writing actions with a specific measure, an owner and a deadline.
- The hierarchy of prevention: the nine general principles — The nine principles of Article 6(2), the order of the hierarchy of controls, and noise exposure action and limit values.
- Machinery, work equipment and energy isolation — What a CE mark covers, the move to Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from January 2027, and a compliant lockout/tagout procedure.
- Hazardous substances — Recognising suspect materials, such as old pipe lagging, and stopping work before anyone cuts or disturbs them.
- Ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders — Manual handling under Directive 90/269/EEC, screen workstations under Directive 90/270/EEC, and the risks of prolonged sitting and repetitive movement.
- Psychosocial risks and mental health at work — Workload, long hours across time zones and third-party aggression treated as workplace hazards to assess and control.
- Emerging risks: telework, digitalisation, AI and heat — Algorithmic management, platform work under Directive (EU) 2024/2831, heat stress, and the legal status of each EU instrument.
- Managing and measuring OSH — ISO 45001:2018, blameless investigations, bow-tie diagrams, ESAW statistics, LTIFR, emergency plans and the current first-aid sequence including 112 and AED.
Internship agreement
With this course, an intern could support a health and safety, EHS or facilities team. Typical tasks include drafting risk assessment records and action plans, checking manual handling tasks and screen workstations, and helping to investigate incidents and near misses. An intern could also compile indicators such as LTIFR or review emergency and first-aid arrangements, in warehousing, maintenance, cleaning or office settings.
The internship can run at the same time as the course, within the 180 days of access.
Frequently asked questions
What role does the Occupational Risks Control course prepare me for?
Occupational Risks Control follows the work of a junior EHS coordinator. You learn to run risk assessments, choose controls in the legally required order, oversee energy isolation before maintenance, assess ergonomic and psychosocial risks, and investigate incidents. You coordinate and check safety work rather than carry it out yourself. You do not need to be a mechanic to oversee a lockout/tagout, but you do need to know whether it was done properly.
Which laws, standards and methods does the course actually cover?
The course covers Directive 89/391/EEC and its nine general principles of prevention, Directive 2006/42/EC and Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 on machinery, Directive 90/269/EEC on manual handling, Directive 90/270/EEC on display screen equipment, and Directive (EU) 2024/2831 on platform work. It also covers ISO 45001:2018 and the withdrawal of OHSAS 18001, ESENER 2024 and ESAW data, LTIFR, bow-tie diagrams, lockout/tagout, and the ABCDE approach in first aid.
Isn't health and safety mostly about handing out PPE and keeping the paperwork up to date?
No, and the course is built to correct both assumptions. Under EU law, personal protective equipment is the last resort: you consider it only after elimination, substitution, engineering and administrative controls. Documenting a risk does not discharge the duty if the risk could have been avoided. A signed permit to work does not replace physically locking out a machine. A low LTIFR does not by itself prove that a workplace has become safer.
What could I do during the internship, and who finds the company?
You find the host company yourself. The school then issues the internship agreement and its annex, and the company signs electronically, usually within one or two working days. With this course, you could support risk assessments, manual handling or screen workstation checks, incident investigations, reviews of emergency plans, or the safety indicator reports that an EHS or facilities team prepares.
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Content updated: 07/10/2026