Occupational Health Surveillance & Fitness Program Management Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
• Explain the purpose, scope, and legal basis of an occupational health surveillance and fitness program.
• Define the roles of occupational health, HSE, HR, line managers, and medical service providers.
• Develop job-based fitness standards that link task demands and workplace hazards to examination requirements.
• Design pre-employment, pre-placement, and periodic examination matrices for different job groups.
• Establish scheduling, tracking, and escalation processes that keep examinations and surveillance up to date.
• Link industrial hygiene exposure data to targeted medical surveillance protocols and action triggers.
• Plan workplace non-communicable disease screening with clear referral and follow-up pathways.
• Govern fitness-for-work decisions, restrictions, appeals, and the communication of outcomes to management.
• Structure confidential health records with appropriate access control, consent, and retention rules.
• Manage return-to-work cases and modified duties in coordination with HR and supervisors.
• Apply procedures for recognizing, investigating, and reporting occupational disease.
• Measure program performance through indicators, audits, and management review.

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Learning Outcomes

• Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
• Describe the legal and professional framework governing occupational health programs.
• Assign clear occupational health responsibilities across HSE, HR, and line management.
• Develop fitness standards for safety-critical and high-risk roles.
• Build examination matrices and schedules for pre-employment and periodic examinations.
• Select exposure-linked surveillance protocols using industrial hygiene data.
• Plan workplace non-communicable disease screening programs with defined referral and follow-up pathways.
• Apply consistent fitness categories and communicate outcomes confidentially.
• Establish secure procedures for health records, worker consent, access, and retention.
• Manage return-to-work cases, modified duties, and temporary restrictions in coordination with HR and supervisors.
• Recognize, investigate, and report occupational disease cases correctly.
• Oversee clinics and medical service providers against defined service standards.
• Monitor program performance through indicators, audits, and management review.

Course Outline