QP's Occupational Health Conference Takes Place Tuesday

Doha , March 19 (QNA) - HE Minister of Energy and Industry Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, who is also Qatar Petroleum's Chairman and managing director, will inaugurate tomorrow ,Tuesday, the 1st Qatar Petroleum Occupational Health Conference. The conference will take place on March 20-21. More than 250 delegates will participate in the conference. Some 24 distinguished experts in the field of occupational health, on the regional and international scale, will speak at the conference. Organized by QP s Medical Services Department in cooperation with the Corporate HSE Department, the 1st Qatar Petroleum Occupational Health Conference will feature professional paper presentations, panel discussions, networking sessions, lectures, case study discussions, and interactive workshops. Specifically, the conference will focus on topics, including workplace health promotion programs, the cardiovascular disease burden in the workplace, functional capacity assessment, work-related stress in the oil & gas industry, industrial hygiene regulatory framework and compliance, and sickness absence management. HE the Minister said that 28 scientific researches will be presented and discussed in order to find the best practices and innovative programs for safeguarding the health and safety of all QP's employees as well as it's joint venture partners and contractors. Occupational health during the month of Ramadan will be one of the main focuses of the conference, Al Sada added. Other topics will be chronic diseases that hit workers at sea sites, how to deal with occupational fatigue and training in the field of industrial safety. The Minister said that the list of speakers include nine experts in the field of occupational health, in QP's medical services department. There will also be speakers from RasGas, QatarGas, Qatar Shell, the Supreme Council of Health, in addition to lecturers from Australia, Brunei, Iran, Philippines, South Korea, UK and the UAE. (QNA)