Personal performance

The new virtual reality of remote CPD and training

IOSH is urging organisations to ensure line managers have access to OSH training after a new report revealed that one in five companies don’t train their line managers in health and safety.

The launch of IOSH’s Blueprint was a pivotal moment enabling members to assess their competencies using a fully structured assessment tool. Now we’re going a step further.

After 13 years as a plumber, Scott Middleton switched career paths and became a legionella team leader for a local authority before taking on his current role as health and safety specialist in NHS Grampian’s corporate health and safety team. He also represented the IOSH North East of Scotland branch at last year’s IOSH Future Leaders Conference.

A tragic experience close to home set Shahul Hameed on his path towards a health and safety career. Now, as a Chartered Member of IOSH, he is involved in some of Qatar’s highest-profile construction projects.

We talk to training providers about how they have adapted essential courses to cope with social distancing, including a rapid switch to virtual classrooms.

Lena Durbec, workplace innovation and wellbeing at work consultant, on how understanding the risk/reward workings of the brain can make more productive workers.

COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the way we work; but it also requires an update to the way we train, too, writes Susan Dumas

Hundreds of OSH practitioners joined IOSH magazine for its live webinar earlier this week.

Máiréad Ni Chiarba CMIOSH reflects on Continuing Professional Development (CPD) using Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats.