During the month of September 2021, SASOM offered its members a series of free CPD- accredited training webinars on the management of occupational health information under the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA) and the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (PAIA).

The webinars were presented by Dr Jan Lapere (occupational health, safety and medicine consultant; OSH law consultant; SASOM executive committee member), and covered the following topics:

• 16 September 2021 – The overall requirements of POPIA and the resulting action plan for occupational health
• 21 September 2021 – The impact of POPIA on the ‘medical record’ requirements of occupational and health legislation and the HPCSA rules
• 28 September 2021 – The action plan for implementation of POPIA in occupational health practices and the changes which need to be made to the occupational medicine practitioner’s PAIA Section 51 Manual.