Members

Recruitment

We'll make and maintain contact with training providers who run courses accredited for IOSH membership. We'll engage regularly with providers of courses leading to membership.

Development

In addition to the regular branch programme, we'll provide mentoring and coaching sessions to help members with their IPD or CPD and prepare them for peer review interviews and Fellowship applications.

Communications

Communicating with members is extremely important, particularly as the vast majority of members are never seen. As a minimum, we'll continue to contact each member once a year by mailing out the branch programme. We'll explore other opportunities for staying in contact with those members who don't attend meetings.

Retention

This can be difficult, but we need to keep on board any member who can and does influence health and safety at any level. Members need to feel there's value in being a member of IOSH, and this is where the branch can play its part.

Branch conference

Seminars have been run by South Cumbria and Public Services in the past and the branch has been involved in running events aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises. More recently, a joint event was held with the Midlands Branch. We're considering a further joint venture and also whether we should hold a larger event of interest to all branch members.

Website

We plan to develop our webpages to maximise the information available to members and others. The website is an important communication tool for members who are unable to attend branch meetings. Alongside IOSH's overall improvements in IT capabilities, we're looking to take the lead by volunteering to pioneer new developments on the website.

Resources and publications

We've recently bought several projectors so that speakers have the right equipment available when making presentations at meetings. We hold a selection of books and other goods from The Grange so that members can view them before deciding whether to buy. Where cost permits, we'll investigate buying other items if they'll benefit branch members.