VCA courses in English

Akademia VCA runs VCA courses in English for people working in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Classes are also taught in other languages — with native speakers or supported by our in-house simultaneous translation system. That is how we serve multilingual teams and international groups.

Below you will find a clear comparison of the three types of VCA courses — prepared for people choosing a course for themselves or for their employees.

Basic VCA

one-day classroom course with exam

from € 270 (incl. VAT)

the price depends on the exam language group

A course for all frontline workers exposed to increased risk. If you use tools, machinery or chemicals at work, or work in a higher-risk environment (e.g. cold store, steelworks, industrial plant) — this course is for you. Basic VCA is required in construction, urban greenery and many other sectors.

Course duration: 8 hours

Certificate validity: 10 years

Exam format: computer-based test taken in the presence of an examiner

Exam languages to choose from: Polish, English, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, German, Spanish, Turkish and more

Number of questions: 40

Exam duration: 60 minutes

Details and enrolment

VOL VCA

two-day classroom course with exam

€ 410 (incl. VAT)

A course for line managers, people working independently without supervision (e.g. ZZP) and employees whose employer requires VOL VCA. It covers the full Basic VCA material plus responsibility, work organisation and personnel management under the Dutch Working Conditions Act and related legislation.

Course duration: 14 hours

Certificate validity: 10 years

Exam format: computer-based test taken in the presence of an examiner

Exam languages to choose from: Dutch, German, English, French (knowledge of the exam language at B2 level is required)

Number of questions: 60

Exam duration: 60 minutes

Details and enrolment

VIL VCU

two-day classroom course with exam

€ 410 (incl. VAT)

A course for those who post workers and supervise work performed at another company — especially in cooperation with tememployment agencies. It covers the VOL VCA material plus the specifics of the worker–agency–employer triangle, the Working Hours Act and CAO collective agreements.

Course duration: 16 hours

Certificate validity: 10 years

Exam format: computer-based test taken in the presence of an examiner

Exam languages to choose from: Dutch, English (knowledge of the exam language at B2 level is required)

Number of questions: 60

Exam duration: 60 minutes

Details and enrolment

At our training centres you take the exam on a tablet. No computer experience? No problem — you operate the tablet with your finger, exactly like your touchscreen phone.

You can also listen to each exam question. This is especially helpful for people with weaker eyesight and for those taking the exam in a foreign language.

Our own invention

TranslationBox™ — breaks down language barriers

Listen to the lecture and ask questions in your own language.

Simultaneous interpretation in the training room or lecture hall. The trainer speaks in their own language, and every participant hears them through headphones in theirs. A participant asks a question in their own language — the trainer hears it in the trainer’s language, and the other participants in theirs.

A question asked in Spanish reaches the trainer in, say, Polish, and the other participants in English and Turkish. Smoothly, in both directions.

This is already the sixth version of TranslationBox. For two years it has been hard at work on our courses — every lecture gives us room to keep refining and improving it.

72% lowest VCA exam score (July 2026) — every participant who followed the lecture in their own language passed. The lecture was given in English, Ukrainian and Turkish.

20+ supported languages

25 months of experience in professional, industry-specific translation

Lecture · trainer → participants click — next

Languages: 1 lecture language and 3 simultaneous translations, chosen from 20 languages. The trainer sets up TranslationBox™ on a tablet: picks a female or male voice, follows the translation as it happens and, if needed, adjusts the pace of the lecture to the pace of the translation.
Context: Translates whole sentences and stays on topic. On a safety course it speaks the language of safety, on a course for doctors — the language of medicine. And the trainer’s jokes? Not every saying has a literal equivalent in another language, so TranslationBox translates by context, into the saying that means the same thing there. In Polish it “pours like from a bucket” (leje jak z cebra), in English it’s raining cats and dogs, and in Dutch it rains pipe stems (het regent pijpenstelen).
Delay: 3.5–5 seconds, depending on sentence length. The trainer doesn’t have to wait for the translation — they speak freely and TranslationBox does the rest. Everything the trainer and the students say is queued and translated with the context intact.
Range: Up to 800 m for both the trainer and the listeners — covers the largest lecture halls.
Wireless: We use proven Sennheiser technology: a headset microphone for the trainer and wireless headphones for the students.
Two trainers: The system can handle two trainers at the same time, speaking the same language.

Training materials are prepared in the participant’s language: PL · NL · EN · UK · SK · TR · AR · …

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For companies — enrol your employees

Do you employ a team? Compare the courses above, pick the right one and enrol your employees — each of them in their own language. Thanks to simultaneous translation, one group can be trained in several languages at once, and everyone takes the exam in the language chosen at enrolment.

Choose a course from the comparison above

Send us the list of employees with the teaching and exam language for each of them

We take care of the rest: dates, exams and a single invoice for your company

Online enrolment for companies is coming soon — for now write or call us and we will arrange a date for your team.