Mission
Help organisations create safer work, trusted products and resilient environments through credible science and practical standards.
We connect workforce wellbeing, credible assurance and responsible operations—helping organisations create places where people, products and the planet can thrive.
COHSEW brings occupational health, safety, environmental stewardship and human wellbeing into one connected assurance framework.
Our purpose and values →Help organisations create safer work, trusted products and resilient environments through credible science and practical standards.
Integrity in evidence. Care in every interaction. Independence in every decision. Progress through shared learning.
Built by practitioners across public health, engineering, laboratories and responsible business to close assurance gaps.
Our health-first model brings together the four dimensions in the WHO Healthy Workplace Framework, translating them into practical assurance priorities for organisations and their people.
View the WHO framework ↗Identify and control the physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic and environmental conditions that shape everyday health.
Multidisciplinary specialists combine field insight, laboratory evidence and internationally aligned methods.
Workplace health programmes, exposure monitoring and wellbeing assurance designed around your people.
Explore capabilitiesFrom farm and fisheries to packaging, hospitality and retail—one assurance partner across the food chain.
Explore capabilitiesTesting, risk assessment and certification for drinking, process and recreational water systems.
Explore capabilitiesQuality, safety and compliance support for laboratories, medical technology and regulated products.
Explore capabilitiesEvidence-led verification for supplements, wellness products, claims and responsible formulation.
Explore capabilitiesIndependent assurance for fleet safety, infrastructure, supply chains and operational resilience.
Explore capabilitiesCOHSEW’s delivery model aligns internationally recognised principles with the realities of local regulation, culture, infrastructure and workforce need.
Workforce health, food and water assurance, resilient infrastructure and locally relevant capability building.
Ghana · Nigeria · Kenya · South AfricaIntegrated assurance across every stage of the food ecosystem, helping you protect consumers, demonstrate compliance and access new markets.
Explore the food assurance system ↗From the first audit to continuous improvement, our specialists make compliance clearer and performance stronger.
Targeted expertise, practical delivery and transparent outcomes for your organisation.
Independent, internationally aligned assurance for systems, products and people.
Targeted expertise, practical delivery and transparent outcomes for your organisation.
Accurate analysis, clear reporting and expert interpretation across complex matrices.
Targeted expertise, practical delivery and transparent outcomes for your organisation.
Targeted expertise, practical delivery and transparent outcomes for your organisation.
Targeted expertise, practical delivery and transparent outcomes for your organisation.
Targeted expertise, practical delivery and transparent outcomes for your organisation.
Search the public register for certified organisations, products and systems. For privacy and accuracy, detailed records are released only after verification.
Learn about COHSEW certification →Track audits, review test reports, manage certificates and keep your team aligned through a secure member experience.
Your assurance programme is on track.
Official guidance selected to help leaders connect evidence, policy and everyday practice.
Explore the interconnected physical, psychosocial, personal health and community dimensions behind a healthy workplace programme.
Read the guidance ↗Understand organisational action, manager and worker training, individual support and return-to-work considerations.
Read the guidance ↗Connect workforce wellbeing to the systems, participation and continuous improvement principles behind safer work.
Read the guidance ↗Practical guidance, verified registers and regulatory intelligence for confident decisions.