DEI Aligned Disability Management & Return-to-Work Solutions for High-Performing Workplaces
Return to work is rarely as simple as determining whether an employee is "fit" or "unfit" for work. Successful return to work asks a harder question, across clinical capacity, job demands, accommodation, legal obligation, cost and long-term workforce capability. This workshop brings all of those perspectives into one room.
per delegate, all sessions and lunch included
until early bird closes on 18 September 2026
Booking for a team? Add up to 6 delegates
The starting point
Return to work is rarely as simple as determining whether an employee is "fit" or "unfit" for work.
Successful and sustainable return to work requires organisations and professionals to consider clinical capacity, cognitive and physical functioning, mental health, psychosocial barriers, job demands, workplace accommodation, legal obligations, operational realities, cost and long-term workforce capability.
Breaking the Barriers brings these perspectives together in one practical, interdisciplinary CPD workshop designed to help professionals develop a more strategic, evidence-informed and commercially sustainable approach to return to work.
Date
30 October 2026
Time
08:30 - 16:30
Venue
The Garden Venue Hotel
CPD
7 CPD Points
Early Bird
R1,800 until 18 Sept
Standard
R2,200
Interdisciplinary workshop incorporating practical skill-building activities, case-based learning and actionable RTW strategies
Why attend
Organisations are increasingly required to navigate complex cases where the clinically right answer, the legally safe answer and the operationally possible answer are three different answers.
An employee is clinically ready to return, but cannot immediately meet all job demands.
Reasonable accommodation needs to be balanced against operational requirements.
Mental health and physical health barriers affect sustainable work participation.
Prolonged absence creates significant financial and productivity costs.
Healthcare recommendations do not always align with workplace realities.
Employers need to make fair, legally defensible and commercially sustainable decisions.
Experienced employees may be at risk of unnecessary turnover following injury or illness.
This workshop explores how to navigate these challenges while keeping the focus on sustainable work participation, organisational capability and employee outcomes.
See how the day is builtWhat you will explore
The morning builds the shared strategic, clinical, commercial and legal picture. The afternoon splits into two specialist breakaways, then brings everyone back together.
All delegates together
An opening session exploring the grey areas where clinical recommendations, employee needs, workplace realities, legal obligations and fairness intersect. It sets the foundation for interdisciplinary decision-making by examining how clinicians and workplace stakeholders can navigate complex cases when the clinically appropriate, legally compliant and operationally practical options do not fully align.
Explore how residual cognitive, physical and psychosocial capacity can be translated into practical, job-specific RTW strategies through functional assessment, job-demand analysis, graded RTW, accommodation and monitoring.
Ensuring interdisciplinary stakeholders have a common understanding of the financial and operational implications of prolonged absence. Exploring commercially viable accommodation and rehabilitation investment. Examining RTW return on investment to weigh the case for retention against the cost of replacement.
The session considers the legal and regulatory principles relevant to disability management, return-to-work planning and reasonable accommodation, with particular attention to how these requirements intersect with clinical recommendations, functional capacity, workplace demands and employer responsibilities. The discussion highlights key considerations for making ethically sound, procedurally fair and defensible decisions.
An interdisciplinary panel explores the difficult intersection between clinical readiness, workplace requirements, reasonable accommodation, operational realities, performance, legal obligations and organisational sustainability.
After the morning discussions, participants choose one of two specialist tracks.
Everyone back in one room
The workshop concludes by positioning RTW as a strategic workforce tool that can help organisations retain experienced employees, protect institutional knowledge, reduce unnecessary turnover and maintain workforce capability. The closing discussion asks how effective RTW can become a strategic tool for retaining talent, protecting organisational capability and supporting long-term business performance.
Practical breakaway sessions
Same case, two vantage points. Pick your track when you book so we can size the rooms and prepare the right case material.
Breakaway 1
Clinical & Rehabilitation Track
A practical session focused on translating cognitive, physical and psychosocial assessment findings into functional, job-specific and measurable RTW recommendations.
Focus
What happens after the FCE report.
Ideal for
Breakaway 2
Employer, HR & Claims Track
A practical session focused on making fair, legally defensible and commercially sustainable decisions when employee needs and workplace realities compete.
Focus
Where accommodation meets operational reality.
Ideal for
Not sure which track fits? Book either one. You can switch by emailing us up to five working days before the event.
What participants take away
Not theory for its own sake. Participants leave with a broader understanding of how to work the whole problem, from assessment findings through to a decision that holds up clinically, legally and commercially.
Secure your seatWho should attend
Designed for professionals involved in disability management, workplace health, employee wellbeing, rehabilitation, absence management and return-to-work decision-making.
7
CPD points
Earned across the full programme, including the practical breakaway work.
Accreditation: Accrediting body and accreditation number to be confirmed. Registered delegates are notified as soon as it is finalised.
Return to work sits at the intersection of people, performance, health, law and business.
The question is no longer simply
Is this employee fit to return to work?
The more important questions are
Breaking the Barriers brings these questions together to create a more integrated, practical and strategic approach to disability management and return to work.
A line-up of speakers who will share their expertise and insights throughout the workshop will be announced once speaker confirmations are finalised. Registered delegates hear first.
Coming soonA short film introducing the workshop and the thinking behind it. It will appear here as soon as it is available.
Photographs from the workshop will be published here after the event for delegates to revisit and share.
Secure your place
Spaces are limited so every delegate can take part in the breakaway work rather than watch it.
Early Bird
per delegate. Save R400 by booking before 18 September 2026.
until early bird closes on 18 September 2026
Standard Ticket
per delegate. Applies from 18 September 2026 onwards, or whenever the early bird allocation is taken up.
Register up to 6 delegates in one checkout. Each person gets their own track, dietary and CPD details recorded, and you pay once. Larger groups, email us and we will set it up.
Choose Request an invoice at checkout. Capture your delegates and any purchase order reference, and we issue a tax invoice within one business day. Seats are held while it is settled.
Prices are in South African rand and include VAT where applicable.
Questions
Still unsure? admin@promotebalance.co.za or call 011 465 0726.
Secure your place
The Garden Venue Hotel. 7 learning hours. Spaces are limited.
Early bird
R1,800
by 18 September 2026
Standard
R2,200
thereafter
