17 Apr NISO Featured in EU-OSHA’s Case Studies
NISO Featured in EU-OSHA’s Case Studies Series
National Irish Safety Organisation has been recently featured on the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) website as a case study of good practice.
The Case Study entitled Ireland’s NISO community of practice: Supporting occupational safety and health compliance (Case IE5) was authored by Dr Victor Hrymak, Dr Patrick Bruce and Dr Chiara Leva. It looks at the beneficial effects of an organisation such as NISO, which it describes as a “prevention services provider operating as a community of practice in the form of a social network”, for enhancing occupational safety and health compliance in Ireland.
It notes that NISO is “unique in presenting enjoyable social gatherings whereby the Irish community can benefit from its large social network using regional structures, as well as annual conferences, regional safety quizzes and safety awards” and that “NISO serves to exemplify the beneficial effects of providing an enjoyable social network OSH compliance community for its members.”
The report offers two strands of evidence for NISO’s success: continued reach, engagement and popularity; and notable achievement in engaging with small companies and the self-employed.
The Case Study gives a broad overview of NISO’s operations and activities and also expands on the following headings: safety awards, NISO’s reach and popularity, collaboration by NISO, OSH compliance and promotion, innovation by NISO, external assessment of NISO and transferability. It is considered that NISO’s community of practice approach is eminently suitable for use by other EU Member States.
It concludes that NISO “exemplifies a successful OSH community of practice that actively provides and encourages a very popular social network for its members” and notes the positive role that providing such a network brings in terms of supporting OSH compliance.
Read the Case Study in full here: https://niso.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Ireland-NISO-community-practice-Case-IE5_EN.pdf
EU-OSHA’s OSH Compliance in Ireland series of publications
EU-OSHA has also published further case studies, policy briefs and reports based on OSH Compliance in Ireland including:
Policy Briefs
- Health and Safety Authority’s role in supporting occupational safety and health compliance in Ireland
- Prevention services’ role in supporting occupational safety and health compliance in Ireland
Reports
- Ireland’s approach to supporting occupational safety and health compliance: the role of labour inspectorate and prevention services
- Summary – Ireland’s approach to supporting occupational safety and health compliance: the role of labour inspectorate and prevention services
Case Studies
- Ireland’s NISO community of practice
- Health and Safety Authority’s Recruitment Drive
- BeSMART.ie online interactive risk assessment tool
- HSA Inspector Conduct and Style
- Ibec and its online community
- Irish State Claim’s Agency’s risk management
All publications are available on the EU-OSHA website: https://osha.europa.eu/en/publications