Introducing ZIOSH.... Zimbabwe Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
Zimbabwe Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (ZIOSH) has been established with the aim of becoming the lead body of occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals promoting high standards of OSH practice.
OSH is a key business function at work and ZIOSH will promote and engage all OSH stakeholders, and in particulars employers to integrate OSH into all business processes with the penultimate aim of making a significant contribution to occupational accident prevention at the workplace.
Human resources is a key means of production and hence has to be protected against all hazards and risks which impact on health. Hence ZIOSH will pay a pivotal role in promoting OSH practices and standards which guarantee high standards of health at work. ZIOSH believes that it is not right for anyone to die or get injured due to work and as such will lobbied for OSH issues to be part of the new constitution as OSH is now a human rights issue. ZIOSH will also promote extensively the business benefits of good OSH programmes and systems, for indeed good business also means safe and healthy work environments.
For many years the OSH profession did not have a strong and conspicuous voice to advance the interests of OSH practitioners as well as the field itself in Zimbabwe. Thus ZIOSH will uplift the status of OSH profession as well as that of its members through continuous professional development (CPD) programmes.