Our charitable aims
IOSH has been a registered charity since
1962. Our main aim is to improve health and safety at work, and to
support the health and safety professionals who are dedicated to
cutting down accidents and ill health.
Our work to raise standards in health and safety has obvious
public benefits. But we also offer free resources to help bosses,
managers, workers, students, researchers and decision-makers in
health and safety:
- We publish a range of guides, all
free to download from our website
- We run a website to help business start-ups, offer online
tools to help managers with occupational health issues and
give support with risk
assessment
- Our OSH Research
Database is the first free database of its kind in the UK
- We've published free guides for elected members of the UK
Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and local
authorities
- We've developed a free course for school
students to help get them ready for their first taste of work
- We have a free helpline for health
and safety, environment and employment law.
IOSH, based in Leicester, volunteers to work on local community
initiatives including:
- the Young Enterprise Company programme, which encourages school
students to set up a real business and take part in a national
competition. We run workshops for the health and safety directors
in the businesses, and mark the health and safety content in each
project report before presenting a regional prize
- the Young Enterprise Primary programme, where members of our
staff work with a teacher to deliver fun, hands-on modules focusing
on our community and the wider world to under 11s.