Prevention Adviser Job at Stad Hasselt in Belgium

Stad Hasselt (City of Hasselt) is seeking a Prevention Adviser (Health and Safety at Work) for a full-time role in Hasselt (Limburg), Belgium. The post sits within the Directorate of Organization Development’s Organization Control Service and suits a prevention professional able to connect legal prevention work with practical support for colleagues. It is particularly relevant to candidates holding the required prevention-adviser qualification, or progressing from Level 2 toward Level 1 under the stated route.

The Prevention Adviser will help shape safe and healthy work across a varied municipal setting. Day-to-day work combines risk assessment, workplace visits, incident investigation, procedure improvement and communication with managers and employees. Stad Hasselt is looking for someone whose approach is accessible and customer-oriented, while remaining able to analyse situations carefully and turn findings into workable preventive measures. Collaboration across city services is central to the role.

Opportunity Details

Overview of the Vacancy

Location, Sector, and Role Context

This Prevention Adviser position supports the wellbeing and safety of more than 1,700 colleagues working across office environments, community safety, technical services, swimming-pool operations and nursing. Within the Organization Control Service, the adviser carries out legally required prevention actions and prepares both the global prevention plan and the annual action plan. The role also involves reporting within the applicable wellbeing-at-work framework. Its purpose is not limited to responding after an event: it extends the organisation’s dynamic approach to managing risks by examining how work is performed and by proposing measures that address safety and ergonomic considerations.

The post calls for a practitioner who can move between analysis, field activity and clear explanation. Workplace inspections and investigations into occupational incidents form part of the remit, alongside work with managers on durable responses to identified causes. The adviser will also help managers and employees understand prevention through campaigns, training and direct communication. A background that combines a Master’s degree, or equivalent Master’s-level reasoning demonstrated through the stated assessment route, with the required prevention-adviser credentials fits the published profile. Practical problem-solving, cooperation and sound networking are equally important in this municipal context.

About the Employer: Stad Hasselt (City of Hasselt)

Organization and Relevant Services

Verified Employer Overview

Stad Hasselt is the local government of Hasselt, providing municipal administration and public services in the city. Its organisation brings together city and OCMW services, municipal schools and municipal institutions. The employer states that approximately 1,600 employees work across the Stad Hasselt organisation. For a Prevention Adviser, this creates a public-service setting in which prevention support must be relevant to colleagues undertaking different kinds of work. The vacancy is based in Hasselt, in Flanders’ Province of Limburg, and is connected to the city’s Directorate of Organization Development through the Organization Control Service.

Hasselt is described by the city as compact, with a lively centre, neighbourhoods and surrounding rural villages. The municipal organisation’s named services and institutions include the HOGEVIJF residential care centre, Jenevermuseum, Modemuseum, Stadsmus, Japanse Tuin, Domein Kiewit, Kapermolen swimming pool and BHL library. This breadth helps explain why the Prevention Adviser’s work spans office activity, technical services, swimming-pool operations, nursing and community safety. It also places the role in contact with varied work methods and operating environments rather than a single uniform workplace.

Professional Setting and Role Context

Work Environment, Operations, and Facilities

The city’s published projects include Campus Elfde Linie, Kunstenhuis Groenplein and the Blauwe Boulevard area development. Alongside its municipal services and institutions, Stad Hasselt therefore operates in a context that includes public-facing facilities and city development activity. The Prevention Adviser will work from the Hasselt location while supporting organisational prevention work through the Organization Control Service. The published vacancy identifies close cooperation with a prevention colleague and the organisation-control team, which is described as having roughly seven people. That arrangement links specialist prevention work with broader organisational control activity.

Stad Hasselt states that its six values are transparency, togetherness, customer focus, self-criticism, courage and goal orientation. The employer also says it invests in training, coaching and internal career development. Flexible working hours are supported, and telework is available where the job permits it. These published arrangements sit alongside the Prevention Adviser’s responsibility to make safety-management tools and guidance usable for colleagues and managers. The role therefore requires a professional manner that can support people accessibly while contributing to structured prevention processes across the municipal organisation.

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Open Positions

1. Prevention Adviser (Health and Safety at Work)

Official title: Preventieadviseur (Prevention Adviser)

Location: Hasselt (Limburg), Belgium | Employment information: Full-time (38/38), indefinite-duration contract

In this role, prevention is treated as an organised, ongoing activity rather than a stand-alone compliance exercise. The Prevention Adviser will contribute to the global prevention plan, the annual action plan and reporting under the relevant wellbeing-at-work framework. Work then continues through risk analysis, evaluation of methods and processes, and the design of safety and ergonomic responses. Contact with managers, employees, social partners and internal and external partners helps ensure that observations from the workplace can be translated into practical measures, awareness activity and improvements to procedures.

Responsibilities

• Carry out the legally required prevention actions and assignments, including preparation of the global prevention plan and annual action plan.
• Produce reporting that follows the legal framework and the Belgian Code on Well-being at Work.
• Strengthen dynamic risk management through risk analyses and reviews of work methods and processes.
• Develop measures that address safety and ergonomic considerations identified through the prevention work.
• Arrange workplace visits and investigations into incidents, then examine the causes of occupational accidents.
• Work with managers on long-term responses to the causes identified through occupational-incident analysis.
• Build awareness among managers and employees through clear communication, campaigns and training.
• Further develop the safety-management system with practical tools and guidance, while improving procedures and preventive measures with the prevention colleague and organization-control team.
• Research and assess situations, recommend improvements supporting employee wellbeing, and contribute to psychosocial-risk analyses.

Qualifications

• Applicants need a Master’s degree, or must be able to demonstrate Master’s-level reasoning through an aptitude test.
• Applicants need a Level 1 prevention-adviser diploma.
• A Level 2 prevention-adviser diploma is accepted where the candidate meets the conditions to obtain Level 1 within two years.
• Candidates must meet the general recruitment conditions.
• The vacancy is in Dutch and does not state a separate Dutch-language requirement.
• The published information states no separate driving-licence requirement and no separate work-authorisation wording.

Skills and Competencies

• Provide friendly, accessible and customer-oriented prevention support to colleagues across Stad Hasselt services.
• Work constructively with the prevention colleague and integrate smoothly with other city services.
• Build working connections with employees, social partners, directors, services and internal and external partners.
• Approach prevention issues positively and turn analysis into practical, feasible solutions.
• Communicate clearly when explaining safety, wellbeing and prevention matters to managers and employees.
• Plan and contribute to awareness activity and training that supports prevention understanding.
• Use risk analysis, incident investigation and process evaluation to develop appropriate preventive measures.

Benefits and Employment Information

• The role includes flexible working hours, with telework available where the function permits it.
• Stad Hasselt provides training and development opportunities for employees.
• Meal vouchers are provided at EUR 5.50 for each working day.
• Employees can access electric bicycle leasing and a bicycle commuting allowance of EUR 0.37 per kilometre.
• Public-transport commuting is reimbursed in full.
• Free hospitalisation insurance is available, with a preferential rate for family members, and advantageous accident insurance is optional.
• The benefits include a second-pillar pension arrangement.
• Leave provision consists of 30 leave days, 14 public holidays and 2 service-exemption days, alongside employee discounts, a free swimming pass and a free library card.
• For this Prevention Adviser role, employment is full-time (38/38), indefinite-duration contract, with published pay of EUR 4,010.40 to EUR 6,610 gross per month (A1a-A1b-A2a scale; minimum for 2 years A1a and maximum for 24 years A2a).

Application Guidance

Prepare a Focused Application

CV, Evidence, Documents, and Interview Preparation

As general preparation guidance, applicants may organise evidence of their Master’s degree or, where relevant, prepare to explain their ability to demonstrate Master’s-level reasoning through an aptitude test. It can also be useful to have the relevant Level 1 prevention-adviser diploma ready to present, or to set out clearly how the published Level 2 alternative and the route to Level 1 within two years apply. Candidates may prepare concise examples of risk analyses, workplace reviews or ergonomic measures they have helped develop. This is general advice, not a statement of additional employer requirements.

For interview preparation, candidates may reflect on situations in which they examined an occupational incident, identified contributing factors and worked with managers toward a lasting solution. Examples involving clear training, awareness communication or cooperation with colleagues from different services may also be useful for discussing the role. A practical preparation file could distinguish observations, analysis, proposed measures and follow-up, mirroring the vacancy’s prevention focus. Candidates may also consider how they would explain a safety or wellbeing issue accessibly to employees and managers. These are general preparation suggestions rather than prescribed selection steps.

• Prepare a clear CV that presents prevention-adviser qualifications and relevant experience in Dutch.
• Keep the Master’s degree evidence available, or be ready to describe the aptitude-test route for Master’s-level reasoning.
• Organise the Level 1 diploma, or explain how the Level 2 route and progression to Level 1 within two years are applicable.
• Select an example of a risk analysis or review of a work method that led to a practical preventive measure.
• Prepare one example of investigating an occupational incident and collaborating on a long-term response.
• Consider examples of accessible communication, training or awareness work for managers and employees.

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How to Apply

Submit Your Application Through the Verified Route

Apply Through the Official Employer Portal

Use the official Stad Hasselt application portal for the Prevention Adviser (Health and Safety at Work) vacancy in Hasselt. Prepare a CV in Dutch, the language used by the vacancy, before proceeding through the portal. The route is opened by the application button below these instructions; the city's application page is unlocked after ten seconds. No additional document is specified in the published application route.