Health
Healthy working conditions depend on clear responsibilities, suitable organisation and systematic prevention. This course helps you recognise workplace demands, prioritise improvements and follow through on agreed measures. It connects practical observation with Swiss SECO and Suva references and considers physical and psychosocial risks as parts of the same working environment.
Request informationYOUR PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
For individuals & organisationsWe agree a start that fits your professional and personal commitments.
OSAM certificates: according to your starting level and learning goals. Company group programmes are usually planned in days or half-days.
Federal preparation: see pathway durations belowSynchronous teaching. Both formats include the OSAM platform for course materials and organisational information.
From an eduQua-certified institution.
Related federal examination pathwaysAn individual quotation confirms the programme, delivery format and applicable fees.
Highly personalised teaching with experienced practitioners working at a high professional level.
FROM KNOWLEDGE TO CAPABILITY
Managers, HR professionals, team leaders and employees involved in prevention or work organisation. Course planning considers sector-specific obligations and the limits of participants’ existing technical responsibilities and expertise.
YOUR LEARNING JOURNEY
These modules form the core programme. Where useful, we refine the emphasis, examples and learning activities to reflect your professional context, starting point and objectives.
Consider tasks, equipment, surroundings and organisation as an interconnected system. Use example observation tools to distinguish hazards, existing safeguards and unresolved questions. Learn when a more detailed assessment should be referred to appropriately qualified occupational health or safety specialists.
Develop organisational and technical improvements using representative workplace scenarios. Focus on ergonomics, work processes and physical demands. Individual behaviour is considered within a wider prevention approach rather than transferring responsibility for unsafe or unsuitable conditions entirely to employees.
Review how escalation, responsibilities, availability and emergency information fit together in a workplace. A tabletop scenario exposes gaps in communication and handovers. Practical first aid skills or specialist emergency qualifications require a separate, appropriately planned training component where needed.
Analyse workload, autonomy, social support and clarity of roles. Use SECO’s approach to locate risk factors in work design and management processes. Develop discussion and escalation routes without diagnosing colleagues or presenting structural problems solely as a question of personal resilience.
Draft understandable instructions, responsibilities and information flows. Consider employee participation and whether the documents can actually be used during work. Compare sample procedures with existing organisational rules; sector-specific legal questions require an appropriate and separately scoped professional review.
Define realistic review criteria and plan feedback, workplace observations and periodic updates. A final project brings together priorities, named responsibilities and target dates. Practise interpreting observations and indicators in context and translating remaining difficulties into specific, achievable improvement actions.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND YOUR PROGRESS
Educational direction, subject expertise and adult learning support. Your final trainer assignment is confirmed in your proposal.
DIRECTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Managing Director
Simon Pawolleck provides OSAM’s overall direction. The focus is on relevant skills, a clear learning structure and personal support that connects professional ambitions with practical progress.
EXPERT’S PERSPECTIVE
Psychology · OSAM trainer network
Valentin Emeric is presented as a relevant expert from the OSAM network. The course trainer will be confirmed for your programme. Subject expertise supports practical cases, focused feedback and applications related to your working context.
ADULT LEARNING & ANDRAGOGY
Head of Adult Learning
Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Adult Education
Sandrine Mélé oversees the adult learning approach: coherent progression, active participation and learning methods that take account of prior experience. She supports a structured, practical and human approach to developing competence.
SWISS FEDERAL QUALIFICATION PATHWAYS
OSAM offers the following examination preparation in related fields. An OSAM certificate course in this topic is not automatically the complete federal preparation programme. We confirm the appropriate pathway, scope and admission requirements with you before enrolment.
Verein höhere Berufsbildung ASGS
Required module certificates or equivalences, plus either a vocational qualification and three years of practice, an upper-secondary school qualification and five years, or a university degree and three years. Every route requires at least one year of occupational health and safety practice.
Admission to OSAM preparation and admission to the federal examination are separate decisions. The responsible examination committee assesses your individual evidence.
External federal professional examination following the required modules. The ASGS association publishes registration requirements, examination arrangements and current dates.
The examination organisation decides on admission. Its current examination regulations and deadlines take precedence; preparation and examination registration are separate steps. We confirm the preparation language separately from the examination language: an English-language information page does not mean the federal examination is offered in English.
Federal professional qualifications are awarded through the relevant federal examination. eduQua certifies the continuing education institution; it does not itself award a federal qualification.
SBFI / SERI — official professional qualifications registerActive at a high professional level, selected against demanding criteria.
Developing the skills of their employees with OSAM.
An experience centred on the people who learn with us.
Personal career goals. Shared organisational priorities.
SERI / SEFRIeduQua-certified institution. Federal qualifications listed by SERI in selected pathways.
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LEARNERS’ VOICES
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“Excellent quality and personalised practical scenarios.”
GOOD TO KNOW
Managers, HR professionals, team leaders and employees involved in prevention or work organisation. Course planning considers sector-specific obligations and the limits of participants’ existing technical responsibilities and expertise. The programme is available to private individuals and organisations, including company teams. OSAM welcomes learners living or working in Switzerland as well as international participants joining live online.
OSAM is an eduQua-certified continuing education institution. An OSAM certificate documents the learning agreed for your programme; eduQua is a quality label for the institution, not federal recognition of every individual course.
The related federal qualifications listed on this page are recognised Swiss qualifications, recorded in the official SERI register. They require the prescribed federal examination and admission conditions.
SERI / SEFRI official registerOSAM’s work connects individual professional development with the needs of companies in Switzerland and internationally. Client references and learner reviews below offer a practical view of that work.
You develop skills you can apply in real situations, with guidance from experienced practitioners and access to learning materials on the OSAM platform. The programme focuses on these outcomes:
Yes. We start with the established programme and refine the emphasis, practical cases and learning support where useful. Adjustments take account of the individual or company’s professional context, existing skills and goals. The agreed programme is confirmed before enrolment; federal examination requirements remain binding where applicable.
For the OSAM certificate, contact us to review your current level, prior experience and objectives. We will confirm the appropriate entry requirements and any recommended preparation.
Required module certificates or equivalences, plus either a vocational qualification and three years of practice, an upper-secondary school qualification and five years, or a university degree and three years. Every route requires at least one year of occupational health and safety practice.
Examination details & official sourcesNo. This programme does not replace the separate pathway to a Swiss federal occupational safety and health qualification. It does not automatically qualify participants for a legally required specialist role.
The programme teaches concepts and working methods. A binding compliance audit, legal opinion or specialist technical risk assessment is a separate assignment requiring an expressly agreed scope and appropriately qualified professionals.
Yes. Examples can focus on office work, display-screen environments, communication and work organisation. Other settings require priorities and any necessary sector expertise to be agreed during planning.
YOUR CAREER, IN PERSPECTIVE
Depending on your experience and qualifications, this subject can support development in the following professional directions.
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Tell us where you want to go. Together, we will define the learning journey that gets you there.
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