Free IOSH

resources

The Institution of Occupational Safety

and Health publishes many free documents.
All our materials are available as hard
copies or to download from www.iosh.
co.uk/freeguides.
Here, youll find details of all our current
technical and management guides and
research summaries, as well as our Safe
Start Up series and online tools.

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.
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/homeworking

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Information guides

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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.
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/withoutborders

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 safety and health
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 safety and health
performance. Key issues covered
include using annual reports as a
vehicle to describe the organisations
risk profile and performance.
www.iosh.co.uk/performance

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 safety and health
consultant.
www.iosh.co.uk/gettinghelp

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)116 257 3199.
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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 www.iosh.co.uk/researchreports.

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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.
www.iosh.co.uk/safetyperform

Workplace health issues focuses on

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

The impact of health and safety

management examines how proactive
safety and health 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

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.
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

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

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

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.
www.iosh.co.uk/teachinghs

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.
www.iosh.co.uk/olympicpark

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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.
www.iosh.co.uk/limits

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.
www.iosh.co.uk/postretirement

Sound foundations reviews the

literature on rule and procedure
management, giving guidance to
help businesses make their safety rules
more effective and efficient.
www.iosh.co.uk/rulesandprocedures

Move more investigates the impact of

behaviour change techniques on break
taking behaviour at work, in an office
environment.
www.iosh.co.uk/movemore

Building safely by design looks

at the use of a virtual reality tool
to investigate effective modes of
interaction between designers and
builders.
www.iosh.co.uk/designsafely

Occupational cancer: Malignant

melanoma looks at the current burden
of melanoma in Great Britain due to
solar radiation.
www.iosh.co.uk/skincancer

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.
www.iosh.co.uk/sunsafety

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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

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.
www.iosh.co.uk/ushaguide

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 www.iosh.co.uk/annualcompetition
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)116 257 3199.
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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 www.iosh.co.uk/safestartup.

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 researchandinformation@iosh.co.uk or on
+44 (0)116 257 3199.
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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. 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.
www.ohtoolkit.co.uk

Information helpline

Our Research and Information Services team can help you

with occupational safety and health advice, environmental
issues and, if youre a member, health, safety and
employment law a completely free service. Call the team
on +44 (0)116 257 3199 or email techinfo@iosh.co.uk.

Wiseup2work is a unique information

and activity hub for under-21s,
teachers, training providers, youth
workers and employees. If youre 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.
www.wiseup2work.co.uk
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 theyre
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.
www.oshresearch.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)116 257 3199.
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Campaign materials Lie savings

Our Life Savings campaign running

in the UK and Ireland showcases how
good safety and health management
saves lives and money.
Go to www.iosh.co.uk/lifesavings
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, email 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)116 257 3258.
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Campaign materials

NO TIME TO LOSE

No Time to Lose
Cancer caused by work claims the lives
of 666,000 people a year worldwide.
IOSHs new campaign, No Time
to Lose, aims to get carcinogenic
exposure issues more widely
understood and help businesses take
action.
Go to www.notimetolose.org.uk to
download free resources to help raise
awareness and prevent carcinogenic
exposures at work. Our materials are
also available as free printed copies
email campaigns@iosh.co.uk.

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Campaign materials

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 IOSHs free pack on diesel
engine exhaust emissions at
www.notimetolose.org.uk. In the
pack youll find: a factsheet, posters,
presentations and hand-outs to help
get the message accross.

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NO TIME TO LOSE

Campaign materials

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 IOSHs free pack on solar
radiation exposure at
www.notimetolose.org.uk. In the
pack youll 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.

NO TIME TO LOSE

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