Humber Branch 2 April 2003

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MERSEYSIDE BRANCH BRIEFING

• How has IOSH been doing?
• Challenges and Plans?
• Issues for Members

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ABOUT IOSH

• Established in 1945, received Royal Charter in
  2003
• Europes leading health and safety professional
  body
• Over 27,500 members in more than 50 countries
• An independent, not-for-profit organisation
• Maintains and steers professional standards
• Provides impartial, authoritative guidance on
  health and safety issues
• for a safer world of work

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PROFESSIONAL BODY

• 24 Branches and 17 Districts, run by elected
  committees of members, all volunteers
• 37 additional committees, sub-committees and
  working parties oversee the Institutions
  activities
• Three elected Presidential officers
  Vice-President, President-Elect, President,
  Immediate Past President
• Council of Management, chaired by the President,
  usually meets twice annually
• Election of Council?
• Consultation on Regional and Single National List
• Decision at Council next week

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FINANCE

• IOSH the charity and subsidiary, IOSH Services
  Limited turnover for the year ending 31 March
  2004 c. 6 million
• Income is derived from
• professional development courses (target to break
  even)
• health and safety awareness training
• conferences and seminars
• books and other publications
• membership subscriptions (target 30-40)
• merchandise
• IOSH Services Limited covenants the surplus from
  its trading activities to the charity IOSH

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WORKING AT THE GRANGE

• Investors in People
• Almost 100 staff at The Grange, fully developed
  site
• HQ is organised into 5 Directorates and Chief
  Executive
• Chief Executive including International Affairs
• Professional Affairs inc. membership and CPD
• Technical Affairs (inc. 14 SGs, RD)
• Commercial Affairs
• Communications inc. Public Relations and
  Publishing
• Finance and Central Services

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DIRECTION FROM MEMBERS

• IOSH policy is developed by a number of key
  bodies
• Council looks after the Charter and Byelaws
• Management Finance (MFC) is the cabinet
• Professional Affairs Committee (PAC)
• Technical Affairs Committee (TAC)
• Specialist Groups Management Committee (SGMC)
• Corporate Strategy Committee

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GROWING IN INFLUENCE

• Consultation
• e.g. HSC 10 year strategy when an unpublished
  draft
• e.g. evidence to Defence Select Committee
• e.g. new liaison officer appointed by HSE to
  relate to IOSH
• Significant Organisation
• Written and verbal evidence to DWP inquiry into
  HSC/E
• Representation
• e.g. WSA Challenge Fund, BS1 on OSH System

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INTERNAL GROWTH

• Financially secure
• Growing membership including internationally
• Conference
• Specialist Groups

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CHANGING WORLD

• New EU Strategy
• Proportion of women workers
• Older workers
• Patterns of work (home, portfolio, isolated)
• HSE Strategy
• Stress
• Health
• HS is under pressure (bonkers conkers) but
  also demands from a risk averse society (rail
  accidents)

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CHALLENGE

• We are seen by some as an old gentlemans club
• We have not yet fully risen to the health issue
• Some HS advice is jobsworth not enabling
• We are not fully engaged in our local communities
  - the Wales Branch work with the Welsh Assembly
  is atypical and ground breaking

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HOW WE ARE CHANGING

• Internal structure
• External communications

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MEMBERSHIP

• Adopted by Poll at AGM
• The national standards ENTO Level 5 - adopted
  as the core competence requirements of the
  Institution.
• The membership structure will reflect the
  attainment of these competence standards.
• Those categories that reflect competence are
  allocated designations and post-nominal letters
• CPD to be mandatory for all technical competence
  grades
• New membership scheme in place by Autumn 2005
• Privy Council in process of awarding individual
  chartered status

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New Membership Structure from Autumn 2005
CFIOSH Mandatory CPD
CMIOSH Mandatory CPD
Professional Interview
2 years experience with CPD
2 years IPD
2 years IPD
Open book examination
Grad IOSH
NVQ Level 4 in OSH practice
PGD/BSc/HE Dip BSC NEBOSH Dip/Other
Cognate Degree
Tech IOSH Mandatory CPD
Obtains a professional practice qualification
Obtains operational HS management qualification
Affiliate
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NEW CPD

• Plan to be posted, 3 year cycle
• IOSH website used to log plan and CPD components
• REGISTER NOW FOR CPD, TO BECOME CMIOSH ASAP

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GOVERNANCE

• 49 Council Members too large a body to make
  decisions
• Large and experienced, representing Members
• Council to retain responsibility for Charter and
  Byelaws
• New Trustee Board c. 12 people open and
  transparent appointment process by Council (new
  Nominations Committee)

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INFLUENCING

• IOSH is beginning to be more responsive
• Press Releases following Morecambe Bay, Tebay,
  etc.
• Evidence to DWP Inquiry
• New campaign
• Emphasising value of professional advice
• Research into benefits of employing practitioners
• Relationships with media, with politicians, with
  other bodies
• TARGET
• Recognition of value of competent advice (first
  research topic)
• Membership recognition of need to be responsive
  advisers
• Public participation in debate about values in OSH

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NEW ISSUES?

• Health
• Worker Safety Advisers TUs?
• Publicity
• Voluntary Sector
• Culture

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JOBSWORTHS

• You cannot / should not do that because
• Its dangerous
• You may be sued
• Its illegal
• Characteristics
• Make assumptions
• Tell people, dont ask
• Jargon and legal quotations
• e.g. the County Hall ponds

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ENABLERS

• Tell me what you want to do, Ill help you do it
• People are entitled to develop their own
  ambitions
• OSH is about helping you do it safely and
  healthily
• The law is minimum standards, not a guide to
  action
• Characteristics
• Clear commitment to the customer of OSH advice
• Questions, questions, questions
• Simple, and focused on explaining the process
• Creating people able to do it for themselves
• Creating confidence

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CHALLENGE

• We are trying to make IOSH fit for 21st Century
• Responding to a changing world of work
• But challenge is for every Member
• The prize is a profession respected for the
  contribution it makes to a healthy and safe world
  of work

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