Leadership and management

Business leaders committed to superlative safety performance must lead by example, draw on workers’ insights and practical skills, and ensure corrective and preventive actions.

Beliefs in and attitudes towards safety underpin OSH culture and, ultimately, performance. How do we build a safety culture and how might it change?

Senior OSH specialist Angela Gray on how to be an effective communicator.

Geoff Trickey on how OSH professionals can break with an ‘enforcer’ tradition to make new people-centred models of risk management a success.

A new report from the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has underlined the need for stronger OSH protections in response to the growing focus on psychosocial work to support wellbeing and productivity, changes to working practices brought about by COVID-19 and technological advances in the economy.

This year’s World Day for Safety and Health at Work (Thursday 28 April) is based on the theme ‘act together to build a positive safety and health culture’. We asked members of the IOSH Presidential team one question: what’s the one top tip you would give to members about ensuring a positive safety culture in a workplace? Here is how they responded.

Nicole Rinaldi became director of professional services at IOSH in October 2021. Here, she looks back over her first few months and towards an exciting future for the OSH profession.

A safety management system, however well conceived, can only get only you so far. We find out how behavioural science can provide the nudges needed to help transform safety culture.

User guide to your brain

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘break the bias’. We ask nine women in the OSH profession how we can create a world free of discrimination.