Free IOSH resources

Information guides

Business risk management helps health and safety professionals understand the concept of business risk management and where managing health and safety risks sits in the business risk framework. It encourages practitioners to use this knowledge to influence the decisionmaking process. www.iosh.co.uk/businessrisk

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. www.iosh.co.uk/workingwell

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. www.iosh.co.uk/healthyreturn

Looking for higher standards outlines how to set up a behaviour-based safety programme using observation, intervention and feedback. www.iosh.co.uk/behavioural

Joined-up working covers key issues that are relevant to organisations considering integrating their occupational safety and health management system with other management systems. www.iosh.co.uk/joinedup

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. www.iosh.co.uk/teleworking

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Global best practices in contractor safety highlights client and contractor practices that lead to good health and safety performance. Published jointly with the American Society of Safety Engineers. www.iosh.co.uk/globalbest

Safety without borders covers issues that should be considered when employees travel abroad for work. It contains an action plan and associated guidance notes. www.iosh.co.uk/globalvillage

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. www.iosh.co.uk/learningthelessons

Setting standards in health and safety aims to help raise health and safety performance across all employment levels and sectors by outlining the competences that staff need, and how they can be developed. www.iosh.co.uk/standards

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. www.iosh.co.uk/enviromgnt

Reporting performance is aimed at those responsible for reporting their organisations health and safety performance. Key issues covered include using annual reports as a vehicle to describe the organisations risk profile and performance. www.iosh.co.uk/performance

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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. www.iosh.co.uk/positiveculture

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. www.iosh.co.uk/goodpractice

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. www.iosh.co.uk/systems

Getting help with health and safety outlines the key steps to consider when engaging with a health and safety consultant. www.iosh.co.uk/gettinghelp

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Research summaries

The impact of expert health and safety advice describes the relationship between competent health and safety advice and health and safety performance in the construction industry. www.iosh.co.uk/safetyperform

Workplace health issues focuses on the workplace health issues that should be targeted in education and training schemes for health and safety professionals. www.iosh.co.uk/ practitionertraining

The impact of health and safety management examines how proactive health and safety management affects organisations and the people who work for them. www.iosh.co.uk/impmanagement

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. www.iosh.co.uk/supervisors

Safety culture, advice and performance looks at the relationships between corporate safety culture, competent advice and safety performance. www.iosh.co.uk/safetyculture

What is a good job? examines the importance of different factors in the relationship between work and wellbeing. www.iosh.co.uk/goodjob

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. www.iosh.co.uk/bodytemp

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. www.iosh.co.uk/bullying

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How supply chains influence health and safety at work looks at the role of supply chains in influencing health and safety management and standards in supplier organisations. www.iosh.co.uk/supplychains

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. www.iosh.co.uk/pictraining

Work-related road safety reviews the effectiveness of different approaches to informing businesses about how to reduce work-related road risk. www.iosh.co.uk/roadsafety

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. www.iosh.co.uk/workingvoices 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. www.iosh.co.uk/coping

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. www.iosh.co.uk/olderworkers

Teaching health and safety in undergraduate engineering courses examines the health and safety training needs of undergraduate engineers and how training materials could be structured and packaged for use in universities and other learning environments. www.iosh.co.uk/teachinghs
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Talk the talk walk the walk describes the findings of our study which evaluates the effectiveness and impact of safety initiatives and communications at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games construction project. www.iosh.co.uk/olympicpark

The limits of influence looks at factors that positively influence the way health and safety is managed by suppliers in the construction and merchant shipping sectors. www.iosh.co.uk/limits

R&D programme What it means to you explains our research and development programme, and includes examples of projects that weve funded. www.iosh.co.uk/researchand developmentfund

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. www.ioshroutefinder.co.uk Occupational health toolkit is a free online resource that provides information on musculoskeletal disorders, stress, stroke, inhalation disorders and other health conditions. www.ohtoolkit.co.uk

Safe Start Up is a free online tool aimed at new businesses and small and medium-sized enterprises. It contains simple, easy-to-use guides on basic health, safety and environmental information for a range of occupations. www.iosh.co.uk/safestartup

More information
If you have any comments or questions about this guide, please contact Research and Information Services at researchandinformation@iosh.co.uk or phone +44 (0)116 257 3199.

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