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Description

Occupational Health at Work: Identifying Duties, Preventing Risks and Taking Action

Connecting employer duties to the real situations teams encounter day to day

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

Occupational health is often handled in bursts: an accident, a fitness-for-work issue, an alert from the occupational physician. Duties are known in broad terms, but mandatory documentation ages and internal stakeholders are unclear about who does what.

These two days restore order to the applicable framework and to each stakeholder's role. Participants learn how to build and maintain a live risk assessment, organise medical surveillance and fitness-for-work situations, and structure a clear prevention plan. Methods are worked through using the situations brought by the group.

Learning objectives

  • Position the employer's duties in matters of health and safety
  • Identify the role of internal and external prevention stakeholders
  • Build and update the occupational risk assessment
  • Organise individual health surveillance for employees
  • Handle a fitness-for-work or job retention situation
  • Formalise a prevention plan and monitor its execution

What makes this programme different

A participant's risk assessment register is reworked live on a real work unit
Fitness-for-work situations are followed through from the physician's opinion to the search for redeployment
A prevention plan template is completed and taken away by each participant

Programme

1Legal framework and responsibilities

Knowing what is required

  • The employer's duty of care and the scope of delegation
  • Articulation between applicable UAE occupational health and safety regulations and internal policies
  • Civil and administrative liability in the event of an accident
  • Serious negligence and its consequences for the organisation

2Stakeholders and organisation of prevention

Clarifying who does what

  • Remit of occupational health and prevention services
  • Role of the employee representative committee and its dedicated health and safety sub-committee
  • Position of the health and safety officer and of frontline managers
  • Involvement of the competent labour and health authorities

3Risk assessment and the risk register

Keeping the core tool alive

  • Breakdown into work units and collection of field data
  • Rating of severity and frequency of exposure
  • Addressing psychosocial risks and physical risks
  • Turning findings into a prioritised action plan
  • Updating and version traceability

4Health surveillance, fitness for work and job retention

Managing individual situations

  • Medical examinations and enhanced surveillance according to job roles
  • Course of action after a long absence
  • Unfitness opinions and the search for redeployment
  • Workstation adjustment and use of job retention measures
  • Supporting the return to work and preventing exclusion from employment

Who is it for

Human resources managers, safety and working conditions managers, line managers, employee representative committee members and health and safety officers.

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

February 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.