The Employment Standards Office (ESO) of the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), one of the world's leading and fastest growing onshore business and financial centres, organised the first QFC Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Day under the auspices of the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour & Social Affairs (MoDLSA) and Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) that, with the support of the International Labour Organization Office in Qatar, recently launched the theme "Working together for OSH in Qatar" for the month of April 2019.

The QFC OSH Day, during which the platform highlighted the importance of educating and promoting wellbeing policies and practices in the workplace, saw the attendance of representatives from MoADLSA, MoPH and ILO, who emphasised the importance of OSH for all sectors including offices and administrative environments.

During the event participants received practical training on first aid, firefighting and ergonomics from Enertech Qatar and actively contributed to the discussion by sharing their approach to OSH and the policies applied in their workplaces.