Menopause Workplace Health Governance for Occupational Health and Safety Professionals

Applying menopause evidence within workplace risk, employment law, and OHS governance

Live online training | 3.5 hours | Limited cohort

BOOK HERE - 10th JUNE, 2026

Who this course is for

This course is designed for the multi-disciplinary professional community who, between them, deliver workplace health and safety governance and who hold a regulated scope of practice that requires them to act on the evidence.

Participants are expected to hold one of the following: a recognised Health and Safety qualification (NEBOSH, IOSH, or an international equivalent); registration with the GMC, NMC, HCPC, or an equivalent occupational health or allied health regulator covering occupational medicine, occupational health nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, vocational rehabilitation, or health promotion; membership of BOHS as an occupational hygienist or of CIEHF as an ergonomist; or a statutory trade union safety representative role under the Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations 1977.

The course speaks the language of hazard identification, risk assessment, and the hierarchy of controls. It is not a new professional framework; it is the application of the frameworks you already use to a hazard you may not have previously considered.

This course is not intended for: HR professionals, general managers, or well-being practitioners without regulated professional accountability.

WHY THIS COURSE EXISTS

Menopause action plans are a voluntary employment requirement that will become mandatory in 2027 under the Employment Rights Act 2025, rather than a discretionary wellbeing initiative (for employers with 250 or more employees). A wide range of OHS professionals are increasingly being asked to advise on the menopause-related impact in the workplace. Where such advice informs risk assessments, adjustments, or employment decisions, clear process competence and professional boundaries are essential.

This course supports regulated OHS professionals in applying menopause evidence safely, proportionately, and within their scope of practice. It is not about "fixing the person." The lens is occupational health risk management. The workplace presents a foreseeable hazard, and the duty is to assess and manage it within the existing legal and standards framework, rather than asking the individual to manage around it.

BOOK HERE - 10th JUNE, 2026

What you will cover

Menopause as a multi-domain hazard; the four stages: natural, surgical, treatment-induced, and premature ovarian insufficiency; and the intersectional and cultural context.

Assessment using your existing tools: TILE, DSE, COSHH, Noise, the HSE Management Standards, and Functional Capacity Assessment.

A staging and a health promotion lens. The course introduces tools for assessing symptom impact, so every member of the cohort recognises where these instruments fit within the wider picture and understands what their colleagues across disciplines are working with. The aim is to foster mutual professional understanding to reduce risk across the cohort, not to transfer clinical assessment skills to non-clinical delegates. A health promotion overlay covers mental, musculoskeletal, and cardiovascular health.

Cross-disciplinary case work from every professional vantage point in the room.

WHAT THIS COURSE IS (AND IS NOT)

This course will teach you to manage menopause as a foreseeable occupational health risk within the professional frameworks you already use. It will equip you to identify hazard interactions that exist independently of any individual's disclosure; to conduct role-based risk assessments that account for menopause-related functional vulnerability; to apply the hierarchy of controls systematically to this hazard; to connect COSHH, manual handling, DSE, PPE, thermal risk, fatigue risk, and stress risk assessment to a dimension they have not previously addressed; and to produce or audit the governance infrastructure that the Employment Rights Act 2025 now requires.

This course does not provide role-specific clinical interventions beyond an individual practitioner's professional registration or scope of practice; training in menopause diagnosis or treatment; prescribing or symptom-management guidance; or clinical menopause care pathways. Clinical care remains with primary and secondary healthcare services.

What you will leave with

A toolkit you can use on Monday morning: menopause-lens overlays for TILE, DSE, COSHH, Noise, Functional Capacity Assessment, and the HSE Management Standards; a STRAW+10 reference card, framed for occupational health practice; a health promotion checklist covering mental, musculoskeletal, and cardiovascular health; the four-domain hazard framework as a one-page reference; and a risk assessment update checklist for portable use.

BOOK HERE - 10th JUNE, 2026

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