IOSH has a standard for consultants that would be difficult for the APS to achieve, unless & i could be wrong, you have at least level 4 qualification in safety + 5 years full time experience and also on a CPD scheme

We should remember that the APS is primarily focussed on the role of the CDMC and is not to my mind a primarily H&S focussed association. It appears the HSE agree with me. (Or I agree with them !!!!) Bob

The APS are totally focused on Construction Health and Safety including the Design stage hence they need a Construction related qualification aswell as a NEBOSH Construction Cert. I am not sure what is required to join ROSPA or the British Safety Council and actually I know CMIOSH with only a Certificate although that is not the case for the new intakes.

Apologies if Im wrong but maybe they were joking; however there was a chap here called Merv who worked in France who also claimed similarly. Maybe IOSH themselves would care to comment.

There was a Register of Safety Practitioners (RSP) before CMIOSH was invented. What was wrong with that and why not just reinvent it now?

Back in the bad old days[!] I joined IOSH as a Topic Specialist [Chartered Engineer who worked on 'Safety Stuff'] with no formal safety qualification whatsoever - taking the NEBOSH Cert later on was amusing as I had the MIOSH letters to my name and the Lecturer found that difficult to cope with. Later I sat on IOSH Council [still only NEBOSH Cert] as a Specialist Group Chair - at one meeting there was a comment from a younger Council Member about MIOSH's who didn't have anything above Cert level, and should it be allowed? The response from a 'senior' Council Member was - "be careful - about 40% of Council Members present were in that situation, having joined as Topic Specialists many years ago" Today [Still only Cert holder], as a CMIOSH, I console myself with the thought that its experience that counts.