Upgrade your membership

IOSH membership is recognised worldwide as the benchmark for professional health and safety excellence.

It’s important to upgrade your membership when applicable, to ensure it accurately reflects your qualifications and working experience in health and safety. It also makes you more attractive to prospective employers.

The qualifications and/or experience needed for each category are displayed below.

How do I upgrade?

For Technical membership

Please email the documents listed below to our Professional Development and Standards team.

• An up-to-date CV explaining your relevant health and safety experience (at least one year) OR link to your LinkedIn profile.
• IOSH-accredited level 3 (or equivalent) qualification certificates.

For Certified membership

Please email the documents listed below to our Professional Development and Standards team.

• An up-to-date CV explaining your relevant health and safety experience (at least two years) OR link to your LinkedIn profile.
• IOSH-accredited level 6 or 7 (or equivalent) qualification final certificate and module transcript or an official letter from your university or course provider confirming that you have passed the qualification and the units that you have passed.

OR

If you have five to 10 years’ relevant OSH leadership experience but don’t have an accredited level 6 qualification, you may be eligible to progress your membership through our experiential route.

Read the full details and apply for our experiential route.

For Chartered membership

If you’re a Certified Member, you can progress through our Initial Professional Development route. You’ll build on your current knowledge, understanding and experience through our supported professional development assessment process.

Read the full details and apply for IPD.

OR

If you have significant current knowledge, understanding and OSH leadership experience, you may be eligible to progress your membership through our experiential route.

Read the full details and apply for our experiential route..

For Chartered Fellowship

If you’ve been a Chartered Member for five years or more and have a minimum of five years’ relevant senior OSH leadership experience, you can progress through our Fellowship route.

In addition to meeting the competency criteria for Chartered Member, a Chartered Fellow can evidence excellence in both practice and contribution.

Read the full details and apply for our Fellowship route.

Student Members

If you have completed your qualification, you’re ready to move to your next membership grade. We will support you to do this.

Read the full details on how to progress.

How we assess your information

Our Professional Assessment team will assess your qualifications and work experience to determine if you meet the requirements for an upgrade.

If you hold an IOSH-accredited qualification, this will be assessed immediately when you submit your information. We will review the information to ensure it is accurate. If we receive a qualification that is not IOSH-accredited, we will require seven days to review the content of the course and provide an assessment outcome.

Any questions? Call +44 (0)116 257 3200 or email the team.