Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing (FOHN) is a Community Interest Company.

FOHN will:

• promote public and professional awareness, evidence based good practice and standards of health and wellbeing at work
• as a professional body raise the profile of and be an authoritative voice for OH delivery for the benefit of the working age population

FOHN provide access to principles of practice, framework documents and guidance to support occupational health practitioners, as well as high quality information and advice to decision-makers and the wider public.

For more information 

There is information on our website about the work of the FOHN working groups, our team, and FAQs – www.fohn.org.uk

We also have an accreditation mini website https://accreditation.fohn.org.uk

What we do

Our vision is to promote excellence in occupational health nursing by focusing on our key workstreams:

1. Professional development and recognition

• Setting up the education workstream to influence the education standards for specialty training
• Support access to work placement and experience and provide guidance on career development.
• Setting up an accreditation scheme to recognize OH nurses at various stages of their careers from ‘practitioner’ to ‘advanced specialist’.

2. Quality and practice development

• Setting up the quality and practice workstream to; develop principles of practice, framework documents and guidance, signposting to good practice and other contemporary resources.

3. Voice of OH nursing

• Representing OH nurses at the Council for Work and Health, National School of Occupational Health, DWP/DHSC Joint Health & Work Unit, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) OH Liaison Group, NMC Stakeholder Group, OH Nurse Connect.
• Responding to consultation documentation and supporting research.