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1 Free IOSH resources
2 The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health publishes many free documents. All our materials are available as hard copies or to download from co.uk/freeguides. Here, you ll find details of all our current technical and management guides and research summaries, as well as our Safe Start Up series and online tools.
3 Information guides We provide either operational or strategic corporate guidance on a range of safety and health issues. Business risk management helps safety and health professionals understand the concept of business risk management and where managing safety and health risks sits in the business risk framework. It encourages practitioners to use this knowledge to influence the decision-making process. Working well promotes a holistic, proactive approach to managing health and wellbeing at work. It aims to encourage specialists to work together to reduce sickness absence through strategic approaches. A healthy return provides a grounding in rehabilitation and return-to-work issues, and includes a work adjustment assessment tool. A wide range of professionals, including managers and human resources personnel, will find it useful. Looking for higher standards outlines how to set up a behaviour-based safety programme using observation, intervention and feedback. Joined-up working covers key issues that are relevant to organisations considering integrating their occupational safety and health management system with other management systems. Out of site, out of mind? provides advice on the safety requirements of working remotely. It includes a tool that can be used to assess remote workers. 01
4 Information guides Global best practices in contractor safety highlights client and contractor practices that lead to good safety and health performance. Published jointly with the American Society of Safety Engineers. Safety without borders covers issues that should be considered when employees travel abroad for work. It contains an action plan and associated guidance notes. Learning the lessons helps organisations respond to hazardous events. The advice given covers fatalities, exposure to life-threatening health hazards, high rates of chronic ill health problems, as well as less serious events with the potential for major loss. Setting standards in health and safety aims to help raise safety and health performance across all employment levels and sectors by outlining the competences that staff need, and how they can be developed. Making a difference is a guide to environmental management for occupational safety and health practitioners. It highlights the skills practitioners need for successful environmental management. Reporting performance is aimed at those responsible for reporting their organisation s safety and health performance. Key issues covered include using annual reports as a vehicle to describe the organisation s risk profile and performance. 02
5 Promoting a positive culture provides an overview of the subject, as well as indicators and tools that can be used to improve safety culture and behaviour. Consultancy good practice guide is aimed at IOSH members who work as consultants or are thinking of becoming consultants. It covers good practice and how to set up and run a consultancy. Systems in focus explores what occupational safety and health management systems can offer organisations. It covers the core elements of plan, do, check and act the principle of continual improvement. Getting help with health and safety outlines the key steps to consider when engaging with a safety and health consultant. More information If you have any comments or questions about our information guides, or would like to order free hard copies, please contact the Research and Information Services team at researchandinformation@iosh.co.uk or on +44 (0)
6 Research reports Our reports give you all the major findings of the independent projects we commission. To read about the studies in more depth, you can download the free full and summary reports from The impact of expert health and safety advice describes the relationship between competent safety and health advice and safety and health performance in the construction industry. Workplace health issues focuses on the workplace health issues that should be targeted in education and training schemes for safety and health professionals. practitionertraining The impact of health and safety management examines how proactive safety and health management affects organisations and the people who work for them. Factors affecting the supervision of safety explores the factors that influence supervisors engagement in active safety leadership and how other workers may affect these influences. Safety culture, advice and performance looks at the relationships between corporate safety culture, competent advice and safety performance. What is a good job? examines the importance of different factors in the relationship between work and wellbeing. Measuring heat stress in industry examines the use of infrared thermometry of tympanic temperature to determine core body temperature in industrial conditions. It includes a good practice guide on managing heat stress in the workplace. Unacceptable behaviour, health and wellbeing at work looks into bullying and violence in the workplace and their effect on employees health. It also looks at factors that might stop unacceptable behaviour or limit its impact. 04
7 How supply chains influence health and safety at work looks at the role of supply chains in influencing safety and health management and standards in supplier organisations. Using pictures in training describes how pictorial aids in occupational safety and health training may improve competence and behaviour among migrant workers in the construction industry. Work-related road safety reviews the effectiveness of different approaches to informing businesses about how to reduce work-related road risk. The health, safety and health promotion needs of older workers covers current and recent international research on the subject, and includes a guide to good practice. Working voices highlights voice use and the impact of vocal and communication demands in the callcentre industry in the UK and Ireland. It includes some good practice tips to manage vocal health, safety and performance in the workplace. Coping in the classroom focuses on the issues and support requirements of educational staff working with students who have behavioural, health, emotional or transient needs. Teaching health and safety in undergraduate engineering courses examines the safety and health training needs of undergraduate engineers and how training materials could be structured and packaged for use in universities and other learning environments. Safety and communication initiatives at the Olympic Park describes the findings of a study which evaluates the effectiveness and impact of safety initiatives and communications at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games construction project. 05
8 Research reports The limits of influence looks at factors that positively influence the way safety and health is managed by suppliers in the construction and merchant shipping sectors. Post retirement age workers and health and safety compares the safety experiences and practices of post retirement age workers with those of pre-retirement age workers. Sound foundations reviews the literature on rule and procedure management, giving guidance to help businesses make their safety rules more effective and efficient. Move more investigates the impact of behaviour change techniques on break taking behaviour at work, in an office environment. Building safely by design looks at the use of a virtual reality tool to investigate effective modes of interaction between designers and builders. Occupational cancer: Malignant melanoma looks at the current burden of melanoma in Great Britain due to solar radiation. Sun safety in construction investigates the effectiveness of a training DVD designed to increase knowledge of the risks of solar radiation exposure and encourage healthy sun safety behaviours among construction workers in Great Britain. 06
9 R&D programme what it means to you explains our research and development programme, and includes examples of projects that we ve funded. developmentfund Responsible research, published in partnership with the Universities Safety and Health Association and others, aims to help anyone who needs to ensure good safety and health performance in a research environment. Annual Competition We commission a range of projects to establish evidence for safety and health policies and practice, as well as sponsoring organisations researching key issues. Please see for more details. More information If you have any comments or questions about our research summaries, or would like to order free hard copies, please contact the Research and Information Services team at researchandinformation@iosh.co.uk or on +44 (0)
10 Safe Start Up Our Safe Start Up series offers free, no-nonsense advice and guidance to new or established small businesses. The guides are all available to download at More information If you have any comments or questions about our Safe Start Up series, or would like to order free hard copies, please contact the Research and Information Services team at or on +44 (0)
11 Web-based tools Risk assessment routefinder is a simple guide to help businesses with the risk assessment process. This free tool uses a sat nav approach to help you create a risk map of your organisation. Occupational health toolkit is a free online resource. It brings together information, guidance, factsheets, case studies, training materials, presentations and more to help you tackle occupational health problems such as occupational cancers, stress, musculoskeletal problems, skin and inhalation disorders, heart diseases, diabetes and stroke. Wiseup2work is a unique information and activity hub for under-21s, teachers, training providers, youth workers and employees. If you re a teacher looking for a free training programme, you can use our Workplace Hazard Awareness Course. The course has been developed by IOSH in partnership with the Health and Safety Executive, to get students ready for work experience and their first proper job. OSH research community is a great tool for contributing towards your continuing professional development. The contents of the website work on a bring and share basis. Researchers and practitioners, wherever they re based, are encouraged to contribute by uploading their work. Work can be published or unpublished, and range from a peer-reviewed journal paper to an evidence-based guide. Information helpline Our Research and Information Services team can help you with occupational safety and health advice, environmental issues and, if you re a member, health, safety and employment law a completely free service. Call the team on +44 (0) or techinfo@iosh.co.uk. More information If you have any comments or questions about our webbased tools, please contact the Research and Information Services team at researchandinformation@iosh.co.uk or on +44 (0)
12 Campaign materials Li e savings Our Life Savings campaign running in the UK and Ireland showcases how good safety and health management saves lives and money. Go to to download case studies, guides and interactive tools to help you make the business case for safety and health in your organisation. To order hard copies, campaigns@iosh.co.uk. More information If you have any comments or questions about our campaign materials, please contact the Campaigns team at campaigns@iosh.co.uk or on +44 (0)
13 Campaign materials NO TIME TO LOSE No Time to Lose Cancer caused by work claims the lives of 666,000 people a year worldwide. IOSH s new campaign, No Time to Lose, aims to get carcinogenic exposure issues more widely understood and help businesses take action. Go to to download free resources to help raise awareness and prevent carcinogenic exposures at work. Our materials are also available as free printed copies campaigns@iosh.co.uk. 11
14 Campaign materials NO TIME TO LOSE No Time to Lose: Diesel engine exhaust fumes pack Diesel exhaust fumes have now been classified as a definite human carcinogen. In Britain alone, more than 650 people a year die of lung or bladder cancer as a result of being exposed to diesel exhaust fumes at work. Download IOSH s free pack on diesel engine exhaust emissions at In the pack you ll find: a factsheet, posters, presentations and hand-outs to help get the message accross. 12
15 Campaign materials NO TIME TO LOSE No Time to Lose: Solar radiation pack Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the world. In the UK, occupational skin cancer kills up to 60 people a year, and there are at least 1,500 new cases of nonmelanoma skin cancer and 240 new cases of malignant melanoma linked to sun exposure through work. Download IOSH s free pack on solar radiation exposure at In the pack you ll find a factsheet, films, posters, leaflets, a toolbox talk, an online quiz and more to help you engage and inform the workforce on this important topic.
16 IOSH The Grange Highfield Drive Wigston Leicestershire LE18 1NN UK t +44 (0) twitter.com/iosh_tweets facebook.com/ioshuk tinyurl.com/iosh-linkedin Institution of Occupational Safety and Health Founded 1945 Incorporated by Royal Charter 2003 Registered charity IOSH is the Chartered body for safety and health professionals. With more than 44,000 members in over 120 countries, we re the world s largest professional safety and health organisation. We set standards, and support, develop and connect our members with resources, guidance, events and training. We re the voice of the profession, and campaign on issues that affect millions of working people. IOSH was founded in 1945 and is a registered charity with international NGO status. POL2560/190515/P This document is printed on chlorine-free paper produced from managed, sustained forests.
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