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The logistics operation requires pace and predictability, but also tight safety. Loading and unloading at docks, working with lift and reach trucks, handling lithium batteries and cleaning agents and entering confined spaces involve real safety risks. Training takes time, while operations must go on. That is why a compact approach is gaining ground: a B-VCA course that simultaneously counts as Code 95 refresher training.
Dual benefits: safety and periodic training
Basic Safety SCC (B-VCA) focuses on recognising and managing daily safety risks on the shop floor. Topics include the use of personal protective equipment, working safely with tools and equipment, working at heights, emergency procedures and the Last Minute Risk Assessment (LMRA). The course emphasises practical examples from logistics: from securing loads to preventing collision hazards with internal transport equipment.
By linking this basis to Code 95 refresher training, professional drivers not only pass their safety exam within one training day, but also register seven hours of refresher training with the CBR/CCV. The compact one-day B-VCA course (Code 95) makes legal professional competence and safety awareness practical, without compromising trip planning or warehouse work.
Fits the reality of warehouse and transport
On a shared shop floor with drivers, warehouse teams, contractors and temporary workers, a common safety basis helps prevent misunderstandings. Everyone speaks the same language: have an LMRA before starting, respect work permits where necessary, handle lifting and hoisting equipment safely and report deviations immediately.
In concrete terms, taking a B-VCA course (Code 95) means that drivers pay better attention to colleagues' walking routes, warehouse employees react correctly in case of emergencies and managers can intervene more quickly in unsafe situations. Moreover, the course day for drivers also counts towards the mandatory refresher training required every five years to maintain the Code 95 endorsement on the driver's licence.
In line with legal and contractual requirements
Code 95 requires 35 hours of refresher training every five years. By combining this with B-VCA, the course simultaneously meets the duty of care under the Occupational Health & Safety Act (training, instruction, RI&E) and contractual access requirements of clients for distribution centres and industrial sites. The B-VCA diploma is valid for ten years and is registered in the SSVV diploma register, making it easy to check during audits or gate instructions. More and more logistics companies also use this registration to demonstrate their safety policy to clients and inspection services.
Return on investment for entire teams
The value is not only in the diploma or the hours of refresher training, but above all in behaviour: recognising risks in advance, calling each other to account for unsafe behaviour and observing agreements consistently. A well-trained driver or warehouse employee not only increases personal safety, but also the reliability of the entire chain. This makes refresher training not just an obligation, but an investment in professionalism, continuity and trust within modern logistics.