Posted By John Middleton Initially, to gain the requisite experience you could offer to take a few courses on subjects such as risk assessment within your workplace. Build up a portfolio of training courses ready for an interview. Try local FE colleges who may need potential tutors for sickness cover, you may be allowed on to their register of casual lecturers. This may not be possible until you have completed both sections of your teaching qualification. Even when accepted you will only get an opportunity to teach on the basis of dead persons shoes, but once in you can progress. There is a difficulty with the delivery of IOSH and NEBOSH courses as both organisations want pre-notification of the tutors who will be delivering the course. Most commercial teaching organisations would like to consider a tutor with a higher level of qualification in safety. If you are teaching general certificate, they would require a diploma; if you are teaching diploma they would like to see a degree, or at least MIOSH and RSP. However, with your laboratory background you may have other qualifications and experience that would make you an authority on COSHH or CHIP. Just keep trying, good luck.