Business assurance

The first stage starts with a baseline assessment using our business assurance tool. We support you to use this self-assessment software.

Your baseline assessment provides:

• a score indicating the current level of occupational safety and health cultural maturity of your business
• a dashboard showing existing strengths and the areas where there’s an opportunity to improve.

There are three broad areas in our business assurance certification model.

• Governance and leadership: what’s required from your leaders to support good governance of occupational safety and health.
• Systems and processes: how these enable and underpin the safety and health governance and leadership.
• People and culture: assessment and monitoring to understand the impact on organisational culture.

You continue to use the self-assessment software to measure the growth of your cultural maturity over time.

In stage two, you work to strengthen the areas that were identified for improvement in the initial self-assessment.

You can do this work yourself or we can recommend an approved provider of the IOSH business assurance certification programme. They will be an experienced consultant who understands the programme and can use their knowledge to help you make improvements.

You continue to use the self-assessment software to measure the improvements.

Stage three is when we audit your occupational safety and health maturity and award your certification.

Your certificate shows the level of occupational safety and health maturity you’ve achieved and is valid for three years. There are four grades of certificate – bronze, silver, gold and platinum.

This provides you and your clients with independent assurance. You also have a method to continue to measure your occupational safety and health improvement activities over time.

Achieving your IOSH business assurance certification is just the beginning. You determine the pace and goals for achieving the level of cultural maturity that best suits your organisation.