To best prepare for the VCA exam, you can take a VCA course. A VCA course will give you a good foundation for the exam. In addition, you can also prepare by studying at home and taking one or more mock exams.
PBNA is an examination agency and conducts VCA. We do not provide VCA on location. However, PBNA does provide excellent study materials and up-to-date mock exams so that you can prepare properly. Do you want to get your VCA? Then book a combination package, consisting of:
There are several VCA-courses you can take.
The duration of the course you take is usually one day, but it depends on where you take the course and which VCA-exam you want to take: B-VCA, VOL-VCA or VIL-VCU.
You can attend an on-site course where you will cover the course material with multiple students, or you can choose to attend an online course and prepare for the exam through self-study.
In every VCA you will learn about crucial topics such as laws and regulations, working safely at heights, handling electricity and hazardous materials, and the proper use of personal protective equipment. If you take an VCA or VIL-VCU course, you'll also gain insight into managerial aspects and the specific responsibilities within staffing organizations.
The various courses are tailored to the position you hold when it comes to occupational safety and health.
Are you an employee and do you work in a high-risk environment, or perform work that could be risky? Then the B-VCA course is sufficient. B-VCA stands for Basisveiligheid VCA and is intended for executive employees.
Do you work in a high-risk environment or in an environment where high-risk work is carried out, but do you have a management position? Then the VCA course is for you. In this course you will not only learn more about safe and healthy work on the shop floor, but also how your supervisor should deal with this.
If you work in a temporary employment or secondment agency and place people at companies with a high-risk work environment, or if your placed employees carry out high-risk work themselves, then the VIL-VCU course is for you. During the course you will not only learn the basics of safe and healthy working, but also how you, as a temporary employment agency, should deal with this.
Are you a freelancer? Then the best course for you depends on the activities you perform for the various clients. If you only do executive work, then B-VCA is sufficient. But are you also used as a subcontractor and do you have management tasks? Then you need a diploma VOL-VCA .
Course content differs whether you take a B-VCA, VOL-VCA or VIL-VCU course.
Topics covered in all courses are:
If you take a course VCA-VOL, these topics are supplemented by leadership aspects when it comes to creating a safe and healthy work environment and motivating employees to work safely and healthily.
If you take a VIL-VCU course, you'll not only learn the basics, but you'll also learn more about the responsibilities of an employment agency when it comes to workplace safety and your role within it as an agent.
Taking a VCA course is completely optional. How you best prepare for the VCA exam is entirely up to you. You are not required to take a VCA course in preparation.
Also, you are not required by law to have a VCA diploma. But your employer or client may require you to obtain a VCA diploma.
If the company you work for is VCA, or the staffing organization you work for is VCU-certified, then from the VCA they must require their employees to obtain an VCA.
VCA is a household word in the Netherlands. Not for nothing are more than 15,000 companies VCA and all employees of these companies hold an VCA. So there is a lot of demand for VCA and exams. Therefore, courses and exams are held throughout the Netherlands. In most major cities you can get your VCA. Such as in Amsterdam, Apeldoorn, Arnhem, Breda, Den Bosch, Den Haag, Eindhoven, Groningen, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Zwolle.
Having a VCA certificate is important to many companies. After all, safety in the workplace is paramount. If employees know how to work safely, this prevents industrial accidents. Do you speak another language? Then that can make passing the Dutch VCA exam extra difficult. That is why PBNA also offers study materials and exams in other languages.
You complete a course at VCA with an exam. At PBNA you can register for VCA exams in your area, you can take the VCA exam in more than 60 locations.
Read more about the different exams:
You can take an exam on an open enrollment basis. This means that you can go independently to an exam in your area. If you follow a VCA course at a training provider, you sometimes take the exam at the end of the course day. An exam can also be arranged from the employer, in which case you take an in-company exam.