Steve Herbert has joined Occupational Health Assessment in the newly-created role of brand ambassador
He will be promoting the provider’s specialist services and highlighting the need for employers and employees to have access to rapid expert occupational health assessments.
In his new role Herbert will also work on the free-to-attend occupational health assessment HR and employment webinars that began earlier this year.
Herbert (pictured) is a well-known presenter, writer, and commentator on human resources (HR), employee benefits, and reward issues having spent almost 40 years in the sector.
The last two decades he has been a prominent figure as an employee benefits leader and hosting events.
His most recent roles include wellbeing and benefits director at Partners& from June 2022 until December 2023, head of benefits strategy for Howden Employee Benefits and Wellbeing for three and a half years, and head of benefits strategy at the Jelf Group from 2010 to 2018.
Herbert will continue to run his own specialist consultancy service providing presentation skills coaching, keynote speeches, and support for successful webinars and events in addition to his brand ambassador remit for Occupational Health Assessment.
Magnus Kauders, managing director of Occupational Health Assessment said: “Steve is well known to thousands of HR professionals through his presentations and media work, so we see his appointment as the ideal opportunity to promote our position as the UK’s only Certified B-Corp occupational health provider to a far wider audience.
“In particular, we want to highlight how access to our team of experts, including Steve, can help employers achieve the best health and business outcomes with the minimum of delay.”
Herbert said he views his new role as an ideal opportunity to promote the often underused option of expert occupational health assessments to employers.
He said: “Occupational health assessments are too often overlooked by HR professionals when it comes to proactive absence management or improvements to worker wellbeing, and also an option not widely promoted by many in the employee benefits industry.
“We feel that there is a very real opportunity to better explain the use of such a facility to reduce absence, avoid presenteeism, and mitigate potential litigation and negative publicity too.
“We believe that the highly qualified – and hugely experienced – team here at Occupational Health Assessment are well placed to help employers explore these issues, and I must admit that I am really looking forward to delivering our collective insights to a far wider business audience in 2025 and beyond.”