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Description

Health, Safety and Workplace Wellbeing Officer: Structuring, Driving and Evaluating the Approach

Five days to take up the officer role and embed an approach that goes well beyond basic compliance

  • 5 days — 35 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

An employee is appointed health and safety officer with no roadmap and no dedicated time. They are called upon for risk assessment, accidents, tensions within a department and the redesign of a workstation. They know neither where their remit ends nor who does what between senior management, line managers, the occupational health provider and workforce representatives.

These 35 hours build the role end to end. The officer positions their remit among the other stakeholders, carries out a risk assessment on one work unit, investigates an accident down to its root causes, addresses the organisational drivers of psychosocial risk, then builds and defends an action plan supported by monitoring indicators.

Learning objectives

  • Position the officer's role among internal and external prevention stakeholders
  • Carry out an occupational risk assessment for a work unit
  • Contribute to updating the organisation's risk assessment record
  • Investigate a workplace accident down to its organisational root causes
  • Build a prioritised and monitored prevention action plan
  • Report on the approach to senior management and to employees

What makes this programme different

An officer roadmap drafted and argued during the programme
An accident investigation conducted as a group down to root causes
A prioritised action plan complete with its monitoring indicators

Programme

1Prevention framework and stakeholders

Who is accountable for what in the organisation

  • Employer duties under the UAE occupational health and safety framework and how delegation works
  • The officer's remit and the limits of their intervention
  • Workforce representatives and the dedicated internal committee
  • Occupational health and prevention service providers
  • Regulatory authorities and inspection bodies

2Occupational risk assessment

Starting from the work as actually performed

  • Breaking activity down into work units
  • Gathering hazardous situations directly from employees
  • Assessing severity and frequency of exposure
  • Formalising findings in the risk assessment record
  • Updating the record and keeping version traceability

3Psychosocial risk and working conditions

Beyond physical hazards

  • Factors linked to work organisation and job content
  • Workload, autonomy and collective support
  • Individual warning signs and collective indicators
  • Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
  • Gathering employee views without making implicit promises

4Accidents, incidents and lessons learned

Understanding in order to prevent recurrence

  • Immediate measures and the reporting channel
  • Fact-finding without apportioning blame
  • Root cause analysis using a causal tree
  • Immediate measures and sustainable measures
  • Supporting the employees involved

5Action plan, engagement and evaluation

Making the approach last

  • Prioritising actions and allocating resources
  • Securing the commitment of front-line managers
  • Communicating with employees and internal committees
  • Monitoring indicators and dashboard
  • Annual review and presentation to senior management

Who is it for

Employees appointed as health and safety officers · workplace wellbeing managers · human resources officers and members of internal committees driving the approach.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.