Workplace health symposium to focus on hidden occupational risks

Occupational exposures, emerging risks and prevention are set to feature at a workplace-health symposium scheduled for 12–13 November in Gauteng.

The Department of Employment and Labour’s 9 November notice lists technical presentations, surveillance evidence and practical sessions, alongside discussion of competent persons’ responsibilities.

The programme is being organised with the Compensation Fund, National Institute for Occupational Health, Federated Employers Mutual and Rand Mutual Assurance.

A separate one-day workshop for shop stewards is planned before the symposium, aimed at helping employee representatives identify occupational health hazards and support compliance.

The notice places the main event at the ANEW Hotel and Convention Centre, O.R. Tambo, at 3 Country Lane in Benoni, from 08:30 to 14:00. It also provides an online participation link.

Readers interested in following the programme should check the official notice for current arrangements. This is a preview of a scheduled event, not a report of completed discussions or new regulatory decisions.

Contextual 2024 archive photograph of apprentices learning electrical circuits at a South African training centre; not symposium delegates or evidence of a workplace hazard. Photo: Artisancourse / Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apprentice_education_in_South_Africa.jpg . Rights: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ . Resized and cropped for display.