Joint statement from NEBOSH and IOSH
Friday, 19 August 2022
As organisations with a shared vision and a commitment to improving work-related health and safety worldwide we support the need for robust and regulated qualifications that provide the knowledge and skills for the health and safety profession and benefit the communities we serve.
IOSH has a long history of recognising the quality of NEBOSH qualifications and the achievements of those people who have gained them. Many thousands of NEBOSH qualifications holders have become IOSH members. They are valuable members of the IOSH community and some have gone on to achieve the highest levels of membership, Chartered Membership and Chartered Fellowship.
IOSH and NEBOSH fully support high standards and the pursuit of continuous improvement. IOSH has been updating its accreditation service for taught OSH programmes/qualifications, working closely with all providers, both awarding organisations and higher education institutions, to the same timeframes and criteria to ensure the quality and integrity of IOSH’s service.
NEBOSH mapped its qualifications to IOSH’s new competency framework, securing ongoing IOSH accreditation for most of its qualifications. It is working to secure additional regulation so that NEBOSH qualifications, and the people who achieve them, can continue to be recognised by IOSH and continue lifelong learning and development with their chosen membership body.
We are also working together to help ensure no-one is disadvantaged by these changes and furthermore to look at other opportunities where we can support each other to further benefit the health and safety profession and improving health and safety standards globally.
Additional information on the changes is available here: Recognition of NEBOSH qualifications.