Personal performance

Long before COVID-19 struck, change was sweeping through work practices. OSH professionals must keep themselves up to date and ensure they have the right skill-set to be able to advise businesses.

The key to working across different cultures lies in the softer skills of the IOSH competency framework.

IOSH Future Leader Jessica Sales explains her journey from lab quality control apprentice to QHSE manager with global commercial real estate services and investment company, CBRE. 

Nineteen-year-old IOSH student member Lauren Healey on why she chose an OSH career and her aspirations to work in the education sector.

Vanessa Harwood-Whitcher became chief executive of IOSH on 1 August. She spoke to IOSH magazine about her plans and priorities to take IOSH forward.

Employers need to place greater onus on competencies linked to empathy and compassion when recruiting line managers so they can manage staff more effectively, according to a new report from Business in the Community (BITC).

Achieving Chartered status during maternity leave was just one among many impressive achievements for Karen Godfrey – safety, health and environment manager at Morgan Sindall Construction (Yorkshire and North East).

Chartered Member James Carter explains how the IOSH competency framework has helped him navigate the fast-paced world of retail safety during the pandemic.

While it seems the worst of the pandemic is thankfully behind us, the looming shadow of Covid19 continues to challenge employers.

IOSH has been asked to take on the Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register Ltd (OSHCR) as one of its companies and help make it a more widely recognised source of competent, independent and proportionate OSH advice.