About this course
VCA VOL (Safety for Operational Supervisors) is the VCA diploma for people who lead teams on site. Under VCA, operational supervisors such as foremen, team leaders and site supervisors must hold the VOL-VCA diploma, while their team members need Basic VCA.
The course covers all the Basic VCA material and goes further. As well as working safely yourself, you learn to organise and check safety for your whole team: giving clear instructions, running toolbox meetings, carrying out workplace inspections, addressing unsafe behaviour, and investigating incidents so they don’t happen again. You also learn how VCA certification works in a company and how risk assessments and action plans turn safety policy into practice on site.
Each topic ends with practice questions, plus extra supervisor-level questions, and you get an online practice exam to prepare fully for the official VOL-VCA exam. When you pass, your diploma is registered in the Central Diploma Register (CDR), where employers and clients can check it.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to do everything covered in Basic VCA, and also:
- Explain what VCA certification requires of a company and of its supervisors and employees.
- Apply general and job-specific safety guidelines when planning and preparing work.
- Organise effective consultation and information sharing, including toolbox meetings, work instructions and briefings.
- Carry out workplace inspections and safety observation rounds, and follow up on the findings.
- Spot unsafe actions and situations, and address them as a supervisor.
- Understand the supervisor’s role in prevention and how the cause-and-effect chain of accidents can be broken.
- Work with the company risk assessment (RI&E), the health and safety annual plan and the action plan.
- Supervise work involving hazardous substances, including monitoring exposure.
- Recognise the risks of radiation and explosive work environments, and take the right control measures.
- Investigate and register accidents and incidents, and turn the lessons into improvements.
- Understand how the company emergency response team works and what the supervisor’s role in it is.
- Pass the official VOL-VCA exam.
Target audience
- Foremen, team leaders and site supervisors
- Installation, project and site managers on wind, solar, grid and storage projects
- Experienced technicians moving into a supervisory role
- Self-employed contractors who have their own employees or subcontractors
- Anyone who manages operational staff on a VCA-certified site, or whose client requires the VOL-VCA diploma
No prior VCA diploma is required. The course includes all the Basic VCA material.
