The IOSH 2009 Salary and Attitudes survey results.

We thought that the results of the 2009 IOSH Salary and Attitudes Survey published this week in the SHP were generally good news for the profession! Here are some of the key points for those who missed it:

• The average salary overall was £37,705 with oil and gas being the best paid sector where the average was £57,408.
• The average salary for Chartered fellows of IOSH (CFIOSH) was £58,484; while Chartered members received an average of £42,847, with Grad IOSH and Tech IOSH at £35058 and £3,748 respectively.
• The average salary for non-members of IOSH was £31,384 (non-members made up for just under 8% of the sample)
• Consultant’s rates varied considerably with 29% charging up to £250/day and 19% charging a daily rate of over £551.

Attitudes are changing… according to the survey 43% felt that health and safety practitioners had a higher status than five years ago and 60% added that their company is more committed to health and safety than it was five years ago.

More than half of the respondents thought their job would be changed to include extra duties - around 80% of respondents already have responsibility for fire safety, two-thirds for occupational health, over half for environment, a quarter for security / general FM and a sixth for quality control.

Approximately 80% of respondents said that they wanted to see a government-recognised scheme of accreditation for the profession.

The survey took place in April 2009 and of the 2969 people who responded, 93% were ‘in-house’ employees and 7% were consultants. 1973 people supplied salary details. For full details see www.iosh.co.uk/salarysurvey