Maintaining an active health and safety program is essential for attracting new employees and encouraging current staff to stay longer. When we systematically address health and safety in our day-to-day work, we create continuity, which leads to greater knowledge, well-being, and safety. Feeling good and finding joy at work should be a given.

Investing in the work environment at your company yields quick results. By training staff in BAM, you foster an understanding of how important a good work environment is for both well-being and safety. In the training, participants receive concrete tools for risk assessment and knowledge of relevant regulations and guidelines. This makes it easier for all managers, safety representatives, and employees to integrate workplace safety efforts as a natural part of their daily work.

BAM leads to increased knowledge and awareness

Offering an attractive work environment is an incredible competitive advantage that every business should strive for. The BAM (Better Work Environment) training program gives you the tools to do just that.

This training will provide you with more knowledge and a greater awareness of, among other things, the risks associated with a poor work environment, why it is important to work systematically, and concrete methods for risk assessment. It will also highlight that workplace safety and health involves so much more than just the physical environment, such as mental health issues and harassment.

Working Together for a Healthy Work Environment

In the vast majority of organizations, knowledge of occupational health and safety varies widely, which can result in these issues not being prioritized. Based on our experience, we can really see a difference in companies that train managers and safety representatives together. When several people within a company take the training together, their knowledge becomes more consistent, and the chances are much greater that health and safety efforts will become an ongoing part of daily work.

We believe that if many employees at your company take the training together, it will foster a deeper understanding that workplace safety and health is not just a “one-time project,” but rather that it should be integrated into every aspect of the business. BAM helps raise awareness throughout the organization about the importance of workplace safety and health.

A good way to start fostering collaboration and raising awareness of workplace safety issues is to include it as an item on your meeting agenda. One example of a key performance indicator for measuring the success of workplace safety efforts is to analyze employee turnover.

We are an accredited training coordinator

As a private employer, you can now receive financial support for workplace safety training courses conducted by ByHart. The support applies to training for safety representatives, workplace safety officers, and managers, and applications can be submitted both before and after the training through AFA Insurance. As an employer in the private sector, you are eligible to receive financial support for workplace safety training initiatives. The support can be applied for by any company that has taken out TFA (Workers’ Compensation Insurance) and has at least one employee.

If a manager and a safety representative/occupational health and safety representative attend the training together, a subsidy covering 70 percent of the participation fee will be provided. For training courses in which managers or safety representatives/occupational health and safety representatives participate, a subsidy covering 50 percent of the participation fee will be provided.

The support provided by AFA Insurance includes:

• Advanced training for safety representatives and occupational health and safety representatives.
• Workplace safety training for managers, including both basic and advanced courses.
• The duration of the training program shall not exceed three course days.
• The courses may also be online distance learning programs.

What does our BAM training entail?

Purpose

To foster effective collaboration in the workplace by teaching basic occupational safety and health knowledge and a working method that makes it easy to address occupational safety and health issues in day-to-day work.

Better Work Environment, or BAM as it is commonly known, is the training course that inspectors from the Swedish Work Environment Authority typically recommend for individuals with work environment responsibilities. In addition to basic knowledge of work environment issues, each participant receives a course certificate or diploma.

Goal

After completing the course, you will be able to:

• be able to collaborate on workplace safety issues.
• be able to identify and prevent workplace hazards.
• understand how a good work environment contributes to the business.
• know where to find the information you need for your day-to-day work environment efforts.

Teaching Methods

The training alternates between theoretical sessions and exercises based on various workplace scenarios.

Target audience

New managers, new safety or health and safety representatives, other union representatives, and employees who need to learn about occupational health and safety. The training is also suitable for those who have been working for a while but have not completed basic occupational health and safety training.

Contact us for more information and to book a training session!