The Safeti Podcast - Connecting Health and Safety

If you have ever looked at embarking on a health and safety career in any shape of form, you’ve probably heard of NEBOSH i.e. the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health.

The organisation offers globally recognised qualifications covering health and safety and risk management.

For the vast majority of HSE positions, you are required to have a NEBOSH or similar qualification.

Many of those in supervisory or management positions choose to complete NEBOSH qualifications to boost their health, safety or environment credentials.

Employer’s will sometimes specify that you need to have a certain level of IOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety & Health) membership to boot.

Just go to Indeed.com or a similar site to check this out. Type in health and safety and look at the job specification – 9 times out of 10 NEBOSH will be directly specified.

So, there is little debate that they are still the most recognised H&S qualification amongst employers.

As an examination board, NEBOSH provide a syllabus and exams for training providers. Courses are quite varied and can be useful for people across many different industry sectors.

The courses offer globally recognised qualifications. Such as, the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety or NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety.

These are excellent first steps towards becoming a fully qualified health and safety and/environmental professional. The qualifications are of course recognised by IOSH and IEMA. These are arguably the two most prominent HSE professional membership bodies.

In this Episode, we talk to Katherine Randell CMIOSH, Head of Fire, Safety, Quality & Environment at the prestigious Canary Wharf Group in London.

Katherine recently posted a very candid Linkedin article relating to her ‘Dirty Safety Secret’.

I think there will be lots of people within the profession who will empathise with Katherine’s story. The openness and honesty in Katherine’s post was both admirable and courageous, we dig a little bit deeper into the reasons why she felt the need to write her article.

To find out what that secret was and what she done about it, have a listen.

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In this Episode, Tom Oxley from Bamboo Mental Health tells us about how his own experiences influenced him to get into the business of helping companies manage the mental health of their employees in a meaningful way.

Tom shares some of his approach to improving workplace mental health, the business case for it and also how to best spend your time and resources for greatest impact.

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Bamboo Mental Health – find out what Tom and his team are doing about workplace mental health at the Bamboo site

Time to Change – the UK mental health charity that Tom mentioned in the podcast – some great free resources here

HSE Stress Mgmt Standards – the Health and Safety Executive standard to help you manage assess stress and mental health risk factors at work