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Safety Shots competition

Bring your safety and health work to life. Win a professional photoshoot.

Enter the IOSH Safety Shots competition and share how you’re making a difference in your workplace. Highlight your impact, and show how your work is helping create safer, healthier environments for everyone.

We will contact the winner after judging and announce them through IOSH channels.

Tell your safety story

We’re looking for inspiring examples of how IOSH members are improving safety and health at work.

Whether it’s innovation, leadership or culture change. Your story deserves to be seen.

Why should you enter?

  • Make your safety work visible and recognised

    Show the impact of your work, celebrate your team, and gain recognition across the IOSH community.

    • A professional workplace photoshoot
    • Featured across IOSH platforms
    • Team and individual imagery for your organisation
    • A dedicated IOSH article about you and your organisation
    • A goody box of IOSH merchandise

We want to see all the details

Not just the impressive whole, but the subtle ways that you put safety culture front and centre in your role.

Capturing all the different industries occupational safety and health operates in is a challenge – but we know it’s one our members are up to.

Wherever you're working, we want to see what occupational safety and health looks like to you. Entering our competition offers you the chance to elevate your industry and be featured across our channels for the innovative work that you do.

What past winners say

“I’ve seen many success stories where someone started as a safety officer and climbed up to become a manager or even a consultant, thanks to the support and recognition that IOSH provides.”

Chandrasekhar Shajahan

Job role
Senior Health and Safety Officer
Company
Standfast and Barracks

See what you could create

Explore highlights from our Safety Shots competition winner, Mark Nixon, at his workplace, Don-Bur Bodies & Trailers Ltd, and get inspired by real workplaces and real stories.

  • Team in high-visibility vests standing outside workplace building with company signage
  • Worker wearing protective mask, goggles and high-visibility vest operating machinery in a workshop
  • Three workers in high-visibility vests inspecting a loading bay and vehicle interior
  • Worker in high-visibility vest reviewing documents with colleagues in a training room labelled “Development & Wellbeing Centre”

Competition question

How have you used your IOSH membership to support with safety and health innovation in your role or organisation?

Show us through your story and bring it to life with images.

How to enter

  1. Write your response

    (max 500 words)

  2. Upload up to six supporting photos

  3. Submit your entry using the online form

Top tips for a strong entry

  • Focus on real impact and outcomes
  • Use clear, simple storytelling
  • Include strong supporting images
  • Show people in action, not staged shots

“We love seeing the creativity and passion our members bring to improving safety and health.”

Institution of Occupational Safety and Health

Chandrasekhar Shajahan in front of rolls of fabric

Chandu’s design for life

Our first photoshoot competition winner was Certified member Chandrasekhar Shajahan, known as Chandu.

Our photographer visited his workplace, fabric printers Standfast and Barracks. You can read his career story and see a gallery of some of the images we took as part of his prize.

  • Chandu’s story

What happens if you are selected

If you’re selected for the photoshoot, you'll be able to request team shots, headshots and any other specific images you'd like. You can use on your LinkedIn profiles and social channels or anywhere else. All winners also receive a goody box of IOSH merchandise.

Ready to showcase your impact?

Enter now and share your story with the global IOSH community.

Frequently asked questions

  • The competition is open to IOSH members. You must have an active membership at the time of entry.

  • You’ll need to provide a written response to the competition question and upload up to six supporting images that help tell your story.

  • Include images that show safety and health in action within your workplace. Focus on real people, real environments, and meaningful activity rather than staged shots.

  • Your response should be no more than 500 words. Keep it clear, focused and impactful.

  • Judges are looking for strong examples of safety and health innovation, clear impact, and how IOSH membership has supported your work.

  • We will contact the winner after judging and announce them through IOSH channels.

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