Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner
- Regulators
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- Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
- Nations
- United Kingdom
- Sectors
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- Other
Regulatory or professional bodies
Chartered body
- Regulatory authority
- Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
- Address
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The Grange, Highfield Drive
Wigston
LE18 1NN - Email address
- reception@iosh.co.uk
- Website
- https://www.iosh.co.uk
- Phone number
- +44 (0)1162 573 100
Regulation
Regulation summary
Health and safety professionals work across a diverse range of industrial, commercial and public sector organisations, providing advice, guidance and management of workplace health, safety, wellbeing and social sustainability issues. For example, compliance with health and safety legislation, risk assessments, DSE assessments, working at height, manual handling, route cause analysis, audit, control, training, ergonomics, environmental matters, behavioral safety, wellbeing at work, rehabilitation, sustainable business strategy.
Regulation type
Reserved activities
None - restrictions apply to use of title only
Protected titles
Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner
Qualifications and experience
New professionals
- Routes to qualification
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To become a Chartered Member, you must fulfil the qualification requirements of Certified membership and successfully complete the Initial Professional Development scheme.
You can also progress to Chartered membership through our experiential route, which is for those with five to 10 years’ senior leadership experience in health and safety who don’t have a relevant qualification.
As a Chartered Member, you must maintain your CPD.
- More about qualification
- https://iosh.com/health-and-safety-professionals/become-a-member/membership-categories/#chartered
Professionals from outside the UK
- Recognition for professionals outside the UK
- All - there are routes to recognition for professionals from all countries
Registration
- Registration requirements
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To become a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner you will need to successfully apply to become a Chartered Member (CMIOSH) of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
- More about registration
- https://iosh.com/health-and-safety-professionals/become-a-member/
Legislation
- Title of relevant act or charter
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IOSH Royal Charter
- Website link to legislation
- https://iosh.com/about-iosh/who-we-are/
- Title of relevant act or charter
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IOSH is an awarding organisation (AO) for Occupational safety and health qualifications as recognised in England by the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual)
- Website link to legislation
- https://iosh.com/about-iosh/awarding-organisation/