Employee benefits specialist Steve Herbert will take on a new role with Occupational Health Assessment.
Herbert also runs his own consultancy service, after working in benefits and wellbeing strategy for a number of years with Jelf Group, Howdens Employee Benefits & Wellbeing and Partners&. He will continue to do this alongside his new role.
His new role will see him being a l brand ambassador for Occupational Health Assessment, where he aims to promote this often under-used option of health assessments to employers.
He will also continue with the Occupational Health Assessment HR & Employment webinars, that began earlier this year. These free events provide delegates with insights on a range of topical employment issues and will recommence in early 2025.
Herbert says: “Occupational health assessments are too often overlooked by HR professional when it comes to proactive absence management or improvements to worker wellbeing, and are also an option not widely promoted by many in the employee benefits industry.
“We feel there is a real opportunity here to better explain the use of such a facility to reduce absence, amid presenteeism and mitigate potential litigation and negative publicity too.”
Occupational Health Assessment managing director Magnus Kauders says: “Steve is well known to HR professionals through his presentation and media work, so we see his appointment as the ideal opportunity to promote out position as the UK’s only Certified B-Corp occupation health provider to a far wider audience.
“In particular we want to higher how access to our team of experts, including Steve, can help employers achieve the best health and business outcome with the minimum of delay.”
