Women in Health & Safety
Come and celebrate with us at Anticipate London 2-4 December, ExCeL
Join Our Free Membership
Women in Health and Safety is a thriving network of people who support gender equality and want to see women flourish in our profession. We connect in-person and online and is free to join.
Run in Partnership with PeopleSafe
EDI and Health and Safety
Heather Beach in Conversation with Rosie Russell, IIRSM president
Are all your employees equally protected from risk? Can they assume the same baseline level of protection as each other?
In an era where EDI seems to be under attack, it turns out that many social and personal characteristics are also tied to safety outcomes in the workplace.
A picture is slowly emerging that risks in the workplace do not affect us all equally and that the baseline of safety that we can assume is not quite the same for everyone.
All about the Women in Health and Safety network
Heather Beach works with a committee to determine the best direction for the network and there are currently the following workstreams:
Events
As well as running flagship events determined by the committee, this workstream also facilitates interested parties to run their own events. See below to register for any of our existing events. If you are interested in running an event under the aegis of Women in Health and Safety, please complete the form here.
Mentoring
This workstream collaborates with other mentoring initiatives within health and safety to provide a conduit for members looking to be mentored or to support a mentee. There are regular events held – please see below for upcoming dates.
Getting Young People into H&S
Getting young people into health and safety– this workstream is currently working with a number of other UK initiatives to support making health and safety a more diverse profession.
Amplifying Female Voices
Here we work with our partners at SHP, to support finding speakers and writers from a diverse group.