Approval for Issuance of Mandatory Basic Safety Training Certificate (Green Card)

12 July 2010

With the effort and contribution from our Executive Committee, the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (Hong Kong) (IOSH(HK)) has successfully been authorised by the Labour Department on 7 May 2010 to issue Mandatory Basic Training Certificate (Green Card) to its eligible members under Section 6BA(4) of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance.

Chartered Fellows, Chartered Members, Graduate Members and Technician Members of IOSH(HK) can apply for the certificates, provided that the members have undertaken not less than 5 hours of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes in respect of occupational safety and health each year and have updated their relevant knowledge through CPD programmes from time to time. Similar to other Green Cards, our certificate is valid for 3 years from the date of issue.

We now embark on the respective administrative and logistic arrangements for receiving and processing applications and a set of relevant application procedures and requirements will be announced in due course.

As one of our great steps towards occupational safety and health professionalism in Hong Kong, we hope this approval could facilitate our serving to members better.

Notification to members (PDF)