IOSH Qualifications

IOSH - The biggest professional health & safety organisation in the world

The Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) pride theselves on being the leading body for health and safety professionals, with over 38,000 individual members. As an independent and not-for-profit organisation, they aim to regulate and steer the profession, maintaining standards and providing impartial, authoritative guidance on health and safety issues.

Some of IOSH's many roles include:

• Regulating the health and safety profession by ensuring that all IOSH members and IOSH accredited training providers conform to a certain level and professional standard


• Advising and lobbying government on health and safety issues


• Providing guidance and advice on a range of health and safety issues, including free guides and a free helpline for health and safety, environmental and employment law.

Accredited health and safety training

Only health and safety training providers such as ourselves that have been accredited by IOSH are allowed to offer IOSH qualifications. This ensures that quality standards are met and that the training itself sufficiently covers the prescribed IOSH course syllabus.

IOSH Certificate Qualifications

IOSH Certificate qualifications are among the most popular health and safety qualifications in the world, with approximately 120,000 people attending IOSH health and safety training courses each year. They provide a good level of health and safety knowledge and best practice for a broad range of sectors and industries.

IOSH Managing Safely Certificate

The IOSH Managing Safely course is designed for managers and supervisors of organisations in virtually all industry sectors, in order to give them all they need to know in order to effectively manage health and safety in the workplace.

IOSH Managing Safely Certificate - Refresher Course

The 1-day IOSH Managing Safely Refresher course is available to those who have obtained the full IOSH Managing Safely course within the last three years and who wish to update and refresh their knowledge with the latest health and safety issues and best pracice.

IOSH Working Safely Certificate

The IOSH Working Safely course is intended for all employees who are not in a management or supervisory role, and will assist workers in complying with the requirements of health and safety in the workplace. The course also aims to promote co-operation with managers in safety activities to improve the organisation's safety performance.

IOSH Directing Safely Certificate

The IOSH Directing Safely course is intended for directors and executive managers in small to medium-sized organisations of less than 250 employees who wish to raise their awareness of health and safety legislation.

IOSH Safety for Senior Executives Certificate

The IOSH Safety for Senior Executives course is intended for directors, executive officers and senior managers of organisations across all industries, with more than approximately 250 employees, who wish to raise awareness of their health and safety responsibilities.

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