Transcript Humber Branch 2 April 2003

MERSEYSIDE BRANCH BRIEFING
• How has IOSH been doing?
• Challenges and Plans?
• Issues for Members
ABOUT IOSH
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Established in 1945, received Royal Charter in 2003
Europe’s 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
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 Institution’s 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
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
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, R&D)
– Commercial Affairs
– Communications inc. Public Relations and Publishing
– Finance and Central Services
DIRECTION FROM MEMBERS
• IOSH policy is developed by a number of key bodies:
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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
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– e.g. HSC 10 year strategy when an unpublished draft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
INTERNAL GROWTH
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Financially secure
Growing membership – including internationally
Conference
Specialist Groups
CHANGING WORLD
• New EU Strategy
– Proportion of women workers
– Older workers
– Patterns of work (home, portfolio, isolated)
• HSE Strategy
– Stress
– Health
• H&S is under pressure (“bonkers conkers”) but also
demands from a risk averse society (rail accidents)
CHALLENGE
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We are seen by some as an old gentleman’s club
We have not yet fully risen to the health issue
Some H&S 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
HOW WE ARE CHANGING
• Internal structure
• External communications
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
New Membership Structure from Autumn 2005
CFIOSH
Mandatory CPD
CMIOSH
Mandatory CPD
Professional Interview
2 years IPD
2 years experience with CPD
2 years IPD
Open book examination
Grad IOSH
PGD/BSc/HE Dip
BSC & NEBOSH Dip/Other
NVQ Level 4
in OSH practice
Tech IOSH
Mandatory CPD
Obtains a professional
practice qualification
Obtains operational H&S
management qualification
Affiliate
Cognate Degree
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
GOVERNANCE
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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)
INFLUENCING
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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
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– 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
NEW ISSUES?
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Health
Worker Safety Advisers – TUs?
Publicity
Voluntary Sector
Culture
JOBSWORTHS
• You cannot / should not do that because:
– It’s dangerous
– You may be sued
– It’s illegal
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Make assumptions
Tell people, don’t ask
Jargon and legal quotations
e.g. the County Hall “ponds”
ENABLERS
• Tell me what you want to do, I’ll 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
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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
CHALLENGE
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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