IOSH
Our impact 2023–24
Welcome
Our five-year strategy, Activate 2028, supports our members and other occupational safety and health professionals to make their organisations safer and healthier.
We’re working to make sure everything we do has an impact – on individual workers, on their organisations and communities, on economies and internationally.
It’s been a tremendous year.
Vanessa Harwood-Whitcher, IOSH Chief Executive
An authority that leads
We’re influencing governments, policy-makers and standard setters around the world on occupational safety and health (OSH).
This year
- we gained Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
- we joined the Global Coalition for Social Justice at the invitation of the International Labour Organization (ILO)
- we continued to collaborate with the Commonwealth, ILO and World Health Organization (WHO) to improve healthcare workers’ health, safety and wellbeing
We’re setting the OSH agenda
This year we published nine new or revised OSH policy positions
Learn moreIOSH members are everywhere
Membership worldwide exceeded 50,000, with 10,885 outside the UK
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UK
11
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European
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International
2
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Strategic partners
7
We played an active role in lobbying the UK government on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill.
And it’s not just talk
We’ve identified four projects in Ghana and Kenya where workers face chronic harm. We’ll chart how our support will make a difference.
Active thought leadership
At selected platforms we demonstrated the critical role of OSH.
Highlights from our year
- September 202310th Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting London, UK
- November 2023WHO ‘Towards healthier, safer and more resilient workplace global forum’ Geneva, Switzerland
- December 2023IOSH joined the ILO’s Global Coalition for Social Justice
Making the OSH profession shine
Behind every successful profession there is a strong professional body. That’ll be us, then…
Growing…
- 50,697 members
- Student membership up 8.3 per cent (from 539 to 584)
- 763 new Chartered and Chartered Fellow members
…and motivated
- 74% of members at higher grades1Footnote details used Blueprint to record their continuing professional development.
- 46% of senior members2Footnote details updated their professional ethics training.
An eye to the future
We’ve introduced processes to future-proof our members’ development.
New membership grades
- simpler structure
- stronger standards
New experiential route
- progress to CertIOSH or CMIOSH
- valuing experience, not just qualifications
New qualifications
- IOSH Level 3 Certificate
- IOSH Level 6 Diploma
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196,000people received training via IOSH courses this year
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57educational institutions now accredited around the world
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105IOSH-accredited programmes and qualifications to choose from
Connecting the profession
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211virtual Branch and Group events 13,042 participants (up 42 per cent)
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92face-to-face Branch and Group events 2,442 participants
They support each other
Upwards
with reverse mentoring (new!)
Downwards
with career development mentoring
Sideways
with peer-to-peer mentoring (new!)
They go beyond
Some of our most dedicated members serve as volunteers on committees, are active in our governance or represent us externally. We can’t achieve our vision without their support, knowledge and expertise.
Our special thanks to them!
OSH is great for business success
We established two new forums in addition to the Business Leader forum, giving us strategic business insights to challenge and sharpen our thinking.
We achieved ISO 45001:2018 certification on OSH management. Great news for our workers, members, suppliers, customers and partners.
Blueprint, our online professional development tool, won the learning and professional development programme gold award at the Association Excellence Awards 2023.
