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“Promoting excellence in OSH practice”.
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ZIMBABWE INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (ZIOSH):
INTRODUCTION
Zimbabwe Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (ZIOSH) was established with the aim of becoming the lead body of occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals promoting high standards of OSH practice in Zimbabwe.
The Institute was established and registered with Registrar of Companies on 23 April 2010 and its certificate of incorporation number being 1410/2010. The registration process was a culmination of the commitment of a seven member team mandated by the National Safety and Health at Work (SHAW) Conferences of 2007, 2008 and 2009, who used their resources and time to make possible this professional body to become a legal entity in Zimbabwe.
The SHAW conferences are organized by the National Social Security Authority, the authority in charge of OSH administration in Zimbabwe.
The Institute was successfully launched on 20 August 2010 at Meikles Hotel, from 0800 to 1015 hours, just after 3 months of being registered. The occasion was officially launched by the then Minister of Labour and Social Services Hon P. Mpariwa who was also the first Patron of the Institute.
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 OSH 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 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.
