IOSH at Intersec 2026

AI can improve how organisations spot and manage risk, but it only works alongside good data and a strong safety culture.

• AI is a tool, not a replacement for safety culture
• Predictive analytics reducing incidents in oil and gas
• Ethical frameworks for AI decision-making on the frontline

Knowing how people think and react under pressure is essential to preventing incidents in high-risk environments.

• Neuroscience insights for confined space safety
• Behavioural science shaping situational awareness
• Mental health as a core operational risk

Maintaining consistent safety standards across different countries and cultures requires leadership that is both adaptable and principled.

• Culturally intelligent leadership across borders
• Empowering local teams for consistent outcomes
• Health and safety as a business value, not compliance

Rising temperatures and changing conditions are creating new risks for outdoor and frontline workers that organisations must plan for now.

• Heat stress and climate stressors on frontline workers
• Environmental adaptation in oil and gas operations
• Oily wastewater treatment and sustainability

Technology offers new ways to protect drivers across the region, but organisations need to introduce it carefully and responsibly.

• Predictive analytics and driver monitoring technology
• Balancing privacy, culture and compliance
• Heavy vehicle risks in logistics operations

In a fast-moving construction sector, the safest approach is to remove hazards at the design stage before work ever begins on site.

• Designing out risk at the earliest project stage
• UAE construction safety in a fast-paced environment
• Confined space hazards and emergency preparedness