For your company (SME[1] from tariff group 3, 4 and 5) the minimum frequency of the periodic company visit is 24 months. This means that you will receive an invitation for a company visit via email from us, Premed, every 2 years. Since it is a legal obligation for a company visit to be carried out by us, Premed, we ask you to accept this invitation.
During this periodic company visit, the policy advice will be updated. This means that the hazards and risks present in the company will be monitored, and new risks - if any - will also be identified. We, Premed, will take into account any serious work accidents, psychosocial interventions, incidents, and the like. We will "re-evaluate" the existing risks based on the preventive measures taken, new risks, and observations since the previous company visit.
The policy advice is a dynamic instrument to assist the employer of the SME in developing an effective prevention policy tailored to the company. We do this by providing information, proposing five prevention priorities for the company, and making recommendations and proposals for concrete and specific prevention measures tailored to the company. Your company's policy advice can be found on Premed's extranet.
The policy advice is the result of active cooperation in the risk assessment, built up and developed in different phases. Everything starts with information for the employer upon concluding the agreement with the external prevention service. Subsequently, the policy advice is supplemented and updated during exploratory and periodic company visits. Finally, it can be updated in the interim due to psychosocial interventions, serious work accidents, observations during occupational health surveillance, interim visits, and additional questions from the employer. The policy advice is always discussed with the employer.
For companies that have recently joined Premed, an exploratory company visit will be planned and carried out as soon as possible. This exploratory visit will take place no later than 1/1/2024.
The exploratory company visit aims to draw up the policy advice. This includes:
- an identification of hazards present in the company in all areas of occupational well-being
- the identification and weighting of the present risks and proposals for five priority risks in the company
- the formulation of recommendations and/or proposals for concrete and specific prevention measures tailored to the company to effectively address those priority risks
- advice on the functions and workplaces for which occupational health surveillance is required.
Should you require more information, you can find the legislation here.
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[1] SME = companies with up to 20 employees where the employer is the internal prevention adviser (the D-companies) or companies with a maximum of 200 employees with small risks and without a prevention adviser level 1 or level 2 (the C- companies) - see article II.1-2 of the code on well-being at work.
