1. Use IOSH Blueprint to build a better, safer, healthier working environment
This IOSH Blueprint presentation should be used when talking to non-IOSH members.
Each slide to follow has a prepared notes section to help guide you through Blueprint during your talk.

2. Contents Who are we? What is IOSH Blueprint? How to self-assess
What are the benefits?
The presentation gives an overview of IOSH and IOSH Blueprint. It then looks at how to self-assess using the online IOSH Blueprint tool, and the benefits to individuals and organisations of using the tool.

3. Who are we? Founded in 1945 and gained charitable status in 1962
Royal Charter in 2003 and individual Charter in 2005
International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO) status from International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2006
Champion, supporter, adviser, advocate and trainer for OSH professionals
IOSH was founded in 1945 and in 1962 gained charitable status.
IOSH is the only body that offers Chartered membership to OSH professionals. IOSH was granted a Royal Charter in Since 2005, IOSH has awarded individual Chartered membership to just under 13,000 IOSH members.
In 2006, IOSH was given INGO (international non-governmental organisation) status by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Being a non-governmental organisation allows IOSH to be recognised as a global leader which is why we are recognised in over 100 different countries.
IOSH is a champion, supporter, adviser, advocate and trainer for OSH professionals across the world.

4. Who are we?
World’s leading professional body for safety and health in the workplace
Over 46,000 members in more than 120 countries
World leader in safety and health training
Our aim is to prevent death, injury and illness at work
We are the world’s largest membership organisation for safety and health professionals, with more than 46,000 members in over 120 countries.
We’re one of the world’s leaders in safety and health training, with more than 179,000 people attending one our courses each year.
We’re a global player in safety and health, co-ordinating networks of practitioners and forming partnerships spanning six continents.
By investing in safety and health, organisations can enhance their reputations and productivity. That’s good for people, organisations, and the world.
Our aim is to prevent death, injury and illness at work by creating safer, healthier and more sustainable working environments.

5. What do we do? Set professional standards and provide OSH guidance
Shaping the OSH agenda
- Health in Construction Leadership Group
- ISSA International Section for Culture of Prevention
- BSI Committee PAS 3001:201
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
We are members of:
ENSHPO The European Network of Safety and Health Professional Organisations (ENSHPO) are a group of members who are professional Occupational Safety and Health organisations based in Europe. The representatives meet at least once a year in a 'Network Assembly' to develop the network and help shape the OSH agenda.
INSHPO The International Network of Safety & Health Practitioner Organisations (INSHPO) is the global voice for the occupational safety and health profession and acts as a forum for international collaboration among professional organisations to improve safety and health at work.
APOSHO The Asia-Pacific Occupational Safety and Health Organization (APOSHO) is an international body composed of non-profit professional organisations devoted to the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases.
ISSA The International Social Security Association (ISSA) promotes excellence in social security. Access to social security is a human right and social security is essential for individuals, societies and economic progress. Important progress in social security development can be observed in recent years in many regions of the world. Much of this progress is due to strengthened political commitment to extend social security coverage and the proactive role of social security institutions.
Working alongside these associations helps us to lead the way, raises and addresses important issues, and drives the international IOSH agenda on behalf of our membership and the wider OSH profession.

6. A safe and healthy world of work
IOSH’s charitable vision
A safe and healthy world of work
We want to change the perceptions of the world of safety and health
Our charitable vision is a world of work which is safe, healthy and sustainable.
In order to achieve our vision, we need to change perceptions of health and safety, making sure that:
Professionals feel empowered and proud
Business leaders understand the benefits good OSH brings in terms of the success and performance in their organisation
OSH is viewed not as a compliance issue, but as part of an organisation’s set of core values.
To achieve our vision, OSH must be re-positioned, and this requires a fundamental shift in thinking – from seeing it as a cost or compliance issue, to viewing it as a priority investment, driven from board-level engagement.
We aim to demonstrate that good health and safety makes a significant difference to an organisation’s performance. We want organisations to connect with and embrace this message, and to take action. Our key message is that investing in good OSH adds value to your organisation, including enhancing your reputation, and improving business performance and the bottom line.

7. Vision for IOSH Blueprint
A fundamental change in thinking
A shift from viewing OSH as cost or compliance issue, to treating it as a core organisational value, considered in all major organisational decisions
IOSH Blueprint is allowing the OSH profession to move away from compliance. By being competent, any issues of compliance are left behind which all round raises the profile of the profession. This brings OSH into the boardroom and helps it to become embedded in the culture of an organisation.

8. IOSH Blueprint is a competency framework for OSH
IOSH Blueprint is a competency framework for OSH. We believe it will become the internationally recognised benchmark for OSH skills and capability.
Health and safety professionals, and organisations, are using IOSH Blueprint to build safer, healthier and better working environments.
Using competency measurement as a baseline and IOSH Blueprint as the mechanism for measurement, organisations and individuals can work to a global standard that’s easily understood and communicated across the supply chain.
By applying IOSH Blueprint as a common language and a global benchmarking tool, organisations and individuals around the world can ensure OSH competency and capability. This, in turn, will help organisations and individuals enhance and protect their reputation, and deliver their OSH vision.

9. A global framework for competence will have a range of benefits for the OSH profession, throughout organisations and across industries.
We can expect improved workplace health, motivation and organisational resilience when we join together to assess competencies using a common language.
IOSH Blueprint has the potential to transform safety and health across the world.

10. It enables:
Assessment of professional skills, competencies, knowledge and experience
Personalised professional development pathways
Organisations to realise their OSH ambitions
Individual and organisational benchmarking
So what does IOSH Blueprint enable you to do?
It gives an individual the opportunity to assess their professional skills and competencies along with their knowledge and experience. From there they can then set some personal goals of where they would like to work towards.
By doing this they will be given a personalised development pathway which can support them with their own personal CPD.
Organisations can use IOSH Blueprint to gain an overview of where their employees knowledge gaps are to aid with development. This can also help organisations with their own OSH strategies.

11. Individual benefits A tool providing self-assessment for individuals
A professional pathway for those seeking a career in OSH
A support tool for Continuing Professional Development
A way for OSH professionals to communicate the value of OSH to their organisations
A tool providing self-assessment for individuals: individuals can complete a self-assessment of their competencies and produce a competency profile to aid their development.
A professional pathway for those seeking a career in OSH in order to identify their goals and produce a development plan. For the OSH professional, IOSH Blueprint’s easy-to-use, free, online self-assessment tool provides a personalised competency profile to assess where they are now, and a professional development plan to map their career pathway.
A support tool for Continuing Professional Development: a knowledge library of learning materials is being developed that will direct individuals to resources that will develop their knowledge and skills.
A way for OSH professionals to communicate the value of OSH to their organisations: IOSH is currently piloting organisational enhancements that will give organisations an overview of OSH amongst their staff.

12. Personal professional development plan
Here’s an example of how an organisation is able to view how its individuals have assessed themselves. This example shows an IOSH membership category breakdown, although as IOSH Blueprint is also available to non-IOSH members, anyone in an organisation can self-assess. IOSH Blueprint for business is still in a pilot phase and the non-member access is not being made public to anyone outside of the pilot organisations at this time.
Benefits of using IOSH Blueprint for business are that it gives employers an overview of where OSH sits within their business, how it fits with their strategy and highlights areas needed for development.

13. Stakeholder engagement
Who helped develop the IOSH Blueprint framework?
Concept development:
Business leaders
Trainers and educators
Members
Piloted and consulted with individuals and organisations
IOSH engaged with a wide range of stakeholders so that we could understand their requirements as individuals and as organisations.
We consulted with business leaders, training providers, educational establishments and IOSH members.
To help shape the tool, we engaged with:
18 universities
26 businesses
600 members

14. The main competencies of IOSH Blueprint
Skills categories
Strategy and planning
Sustainable organisation practice
Engagement and influence
Technical capability
Elements
Self-assessment
Professional development plan
Learning materials
IOSH Blueprint has four key skill categories:
Strategy and planning
Sustainable organisation practice
Engagement and influence
Technical capability
Users can make use of three key elements:
Self-assessment – understanding where you are now
Professional development plan – setting a pathway for where you want to go
Learning materials – useful information to help you get there

15. Building your competency profile
So how do you use IOSH Blueprint?
Here is a screenshot from the live site.
On the left-hand side, you can see some of the competencies listed, alongside a grid ranging from 0 to 8.
Users begin by clicking on each of the competencies.

16. Now you can see the breakdown of the skill levels.
From 0, which indicates no knowledge or experience of the competency, followed by Awareness, Basic, Intermediate through to Advanced.
These levels are not set against any qualification framework.
Once you’ve read through the skills levels, select the level you feel you’re at right now.

17. As you go through each competency and select the suitable level, an orange star will be set to indicate the level you’re at now. Once you’ve gone through the competencies you want to assess yourself against, you can then download a competency profile, which is a Word document that will give you a run down of the skills set you currently have.
You will notice that not all of them range from 0-8. In development of the content, it was decided that some competencies do not lend themselves suitable to need a full range of levels.

18. After self-assessing, you can download your competency profile showing where you are now.
The next step is to set your professional goals.

19. Building your professional development plan
This is where you complete your gap analysis.
Click on the level you wish to attain and read the accompanying text. If this is correct, click ‘Add to my development plan’.

20. Once you’ve completed your self-assessment, you’ll see a set of blue stars to indicate your target levels.
Click on the ‘Professional development plan’ link to download your plan.
This will open a Word document that will show your results, which you can save for future review.
It can also be uploaded to your IOSH CPD record.

21. The organisational perspective
Global organisations and SMEs asked us for a different approach to show ‘what good looks like’
An opportunity for third-party verification of their own frameworks
A blueprint for delivering value and opportunity to the workforce
Global organisations and SMEs asked IOSH to develop a framework that they could use to assess their OSH capabilities as organisations. This is an overall assessment of the OSH requirements of all staff, to show ‘what good looks like’. The aim is to help organisations understand what OSH knowledge and skills are required to deliver their own vision.
For the leader, IOSH Blueprint can create a picture of their organisation’s health and safety policies, practices and personnel so they can identify and confidently invest in training and development to safeguard their workforce.
Many organisations have their own frameworks. IOSH Blueprint can be used to benchmark what a global standard should look like against their own.
For organisations, the IOSH Blueprint tool can paint a picture of the health and safety landscape within the organisation.
This will highlight organisational successes, uncover unused skills among employees, and identify training and development needs.
All of this will help set new organisational goals, and support confident investments and improvements in safety throughout the organisation.
It can be described as a ‘blueprint’ for delivering value and opportunity in the workforce.
Reputation is key to any viable organisation; looking after your workforce and having good systems is place is vital to achieving this.

22. Organisational benefits
Tool identifies health and safety capability skills gaps in an organisation
Gives organisations the opportunity to benchmark
SMEs can use IOSH Blueprint to better understand their OSH needs and the professional support they may require
Recognition of health and safety as a boardroom topic feeding organisation value
There are many organisational benefits of using the tool.
The framework can be used to assess the health and safety capabilities of an organisation, so that a gap analysis can be conducted to identify training needs and allocate budget effectively.
Benchmarking will bring opportunities for consistency, clarity and comparability.
Any organisation – large or small – can use the framework to get a better understanding of its OSH needs and the professional support that it requires.
Recognition of health and safety as a boardroom topic will provide organisations with the ability to communicate and engage at board level.

23. Thank you Contact: blueprinthelpdesk@iosh.com
If you’re interested in implementing IOSH Blueprint in your organisation, let me have your business card and we will contact you.