Steve Perkins MA CDir FIoD FInstP AFOH Steve is the Managing Director of Steve Perkins Associates Limited, an award-winning strategic occupational hygiene, health and ergonomics consultancy, specialising in construction and infrastructure. He is the founder of the award-winning Healthier Highways initiative on the M25 network. Prior to this he served as the first CEO of BOHS – the UK’s Chartered professional and awarding body for occupational hygiene. Steve is an experienced business leader having worked in the corporate and charitable sectors as an exec and non-exec director and as a trustee. Originally trained as a physicist with an Oxford MA, Steve is a Chartered Director, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and the Institute of Physics, and an Associate Member of the BOHS Faculty of Occupational Hygiene. He is a regular conference speaker and writer on worker health protection and is passionate about the human, economic and societal benefits of a sustainable approach to workforce health.
Musculoskeletal ill-health is one of the biggest challenges facing the highways workforce, leading to lost time, reduced productivity and long-term health impacts. This session explores how MRPro is helping the sector proactively identify risks, support early intervention and create safer, more sustainable working environments.
National Highways shares its Health & Wellbeing approach and how it's supporting people across the organisation and beyond. This session asks what it will take to embed meaningful, inclusive wellbeing practices right across the sector - from site to boardroom