Future Leaders

The Future Leaders Steering Group member made the transition from chef to a career in OSH, achieving Chartered status in just two years. He tells us how his consultancy role sped up his progress, and why soft skills are the route to a rewarding career.

A truly inclusive approach to safety should encompass all aspects of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). In this episode, two IOSH Future Leaders share ideas of how they've used it to their advantage in their organisations.

We speak to IOSH Future Leaders Steering Group member Rebbekah Wilson about royal visits and being an OSH leader while pregnant.

IOSH Future Leaders interview the HSE's ergonomics guru to find out what organisations should be doing to safeguard hybrid workers against MSDs.

In this episode, two members of the IOSH Future Leaders steering group explore where they get their inspiration from as health and safety practitioners, discuss how to develop power skills, and give our listeners some fresh ideas about different places we can all learn from.

Mohamed Mudather Suliman, health and safety consultant and trainer at Samara Training Institute, a leading OSH institute in Oman, explains why the future of the profession relies on knowledge-sharing with the next generation.

Excitement is building for IOSH’s third Future Leaders Conference, taking place online between 29 and 31 March 2022. We spoke to speakers and Future Leaders about what to look out for.

Samantha Banfield, workforce safety, health and environment adviser at Network Rail, describes how she went from sociology graduate to rail industry safety adviser via a waitressing stint – and how working towards overcoming impostor syndrome has made her a better OSH professional.

This episode has been taken over by three IOSH Future Leaders: Alpa Vadher, Adam Gawne and Abdulhanan Cheema. They discuss how to be a good safety influencer, and the new standard for psychosocial risks and how it might impact mental health in the workplace.

Cassandra Barrow GradIOSH describes how the cloud of a COVID redundancy had a silver lining in the shape of an exciting new role at the FA, where she is embracing a broad range of OSH challenges while working to promote diversity and inclusion.