IOSH is Europe's leading body for health and safety professionals. As an independent and not-for-profit organisation, they aim to regulate and steer the profession, maintaining standards and providing impartial, authoritative guidance on health and safety issues.
What do they do?
Influencing the profession They believe that offering communicated expert advice from competent safety and health practitioners is an essential component in defining the safety, health and welfare policies of employers.
By encouraging, facilitating and leading communication of good practices and expertise, they aim to promote awareness of health and safety matters in the workplace and ensure that high standards are achieved, and maintained.
Working with UK governments IOSH is the conduit for knowledge, opinion and research on many important matters affecting the health and safety profession, and is often consulted by government departments for members' views on draft legislation, codes of practice and other government initiatives.
They aim to ensure that our members have a strong and effective voice which influences health and safety related issues with governments, employers and trades unions.
Working with Europe IOSH aims to increase its contribution within the European Community and explore ways in which it can more directly influence European directives and guidance.
They also aim to work with committees of national and international standards-making bodies, advancing research and pro-actively assisting the dissemination of knowledge throughout the wider European community and accession states.
