5 ECTS credits
125 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 6007548FER for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (F) Master - specialised level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Possible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- French
- Partnership Agreement
- Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law and Criminology
- Department
- Publiek recht
- External partners
- Université libre de Bruxelles
- Educational team
- Docent Extern
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 26 contact hours Lecture
- Course Content
The course deals with accidents at work and occupational diseases and contains:
- A brief historical introduction explaining the foundations and raison d’être of the social protection branches relating to accidents at work and occupational diseases
- A detailed analyses of the concepts of accident at work and occupational disease, and of the rules governing entitlements
- The exclusion from the right to benefits in case of intentionally caused accidents and diseases and the employers’ (as well as their employees and mandatories) immunity from tort law claims.
- Course material
- Handbook (Recommended) : Les accidents du travail, L. Van Gossum, N. Simar et M. Strongylos, 8ème éd., Bruxelles, Larcier, coll. « Droit social », 2013
Course text (Recommended) : Les accidents (sur le chemin) du travail, M. Jourdan et S. Remouchamps, 4 volumes, Waterloo, Kluwer
Course text (Recommended) : « La notion de maladie professionnelle », Guide Social Permanent. Sécurité sociale: commentaires, chapitre II, section 2, P. I, L. V, T. II
Handbook (Recommended) : Handboek socialezekerheidsrecht, J. Van Langendonck, e.a., Intersentia, 9980000144717, 2023
- Additional info
Ex cathedra course
See the course’s web page at the ULB website.
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competencies
By the end of the course, students:
- will have acquired a thorough knowledge of the basic concepts, the foundations and limits of the branches of social protection against accidents at work and occupational diseases
- will be able to apply the relevant legislation on concrete cases.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral Exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Oral exam without preparation time.
If more than 50 students take the course, a written exam will take place.
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Social Law: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)