About this event
Join our panel as we explore the practical and legal aspects of absence management, workplace conflicts and occupational health assessment.
Join our expert panel as they explore the practical and legal aspects of absence management, workplace conflicts, and the challenges of meaningful and professional occupational health assessments.
Workforce health & wellbeing: "Prevention is better than cure"
Award-winning speaker, Steve Herbert, will consider the economic and commercial drivers behind good workforce health, engagement, and wellbeing. Steve will also look at topical issues and the key wellbeing challenges in 2025 and consider how HR professionals can strive to get "upstream" of wellbeing issues, identifying and addressing potential challenges before they become major problems for employees and employers alike. A fast paced and fun opening to our event.
Speakers Bio:
Steve Herbert is an award-winning speaker and commentator on employee benefits, HR, and topical employment and business issues. He is a sought-after guest speaker at events and takes a unique, engaging and (often) fun approach as he aims to explore and explain potentially complex issues to his audience. Steve has recently joined leading provider of rapid and meaningful medical assessments, Occupational Health Assessment Limited, as Brand Ambassador.
Health assessments: "Asking the right questions"
Magnus Kauders, Managing Director at Occupational Health Assessment Ltd, will dive into the world of effective absence management and the vital - but so often overlooked and misunderstood - use of occupational health assessments. Magnus will emphasise the importance of asking the right questions, in the right way, at outset to ensure that the assessment process delivers the most meaningful and useful data to support both the employee and employer. This session will enable HR professionals to approach occupational health assessments with clarity and confidence.
- Magnus Kauders, Managing Director, Occupational Health Assessment Ltd
Magnus has more than twenty years of professional occupational health experience. His lengthy career encompasses long periods in the financial heart of the City of London, as well as many years' supporting professional services firms and highly complex safety-critical environments. Magnus has assembled a team of incredibly experienced and highly capable Doctors, Nurses, Specialist Case Managers and Administrators, and he aims to provide clients with a unique perspective in how to transform occupational health processes and outcomes. Administrators, and he aims to provide clients with a unique perspective in how to transform occupational health processes and outcomes.
Employment Law: "Health Assessments: The legal perspective"
RWK Goodman's Lauren Harkin will provide the all-important legal perspective on absence management and the effective - and correct - use of employer sponsored occupational health assessments. From pre-employment health questionnaires to disability discrimination and reasonable adjustments, Lauren will guide you through the potential legal pitfalls HR teams must avoid. A must attend session for delegates.
- Lauren Harkin, Partner, RWK Goodman
Lauren is a Partner at RWK Goodman specialising in all aspects of employment law including defending employment tribunal claims, drafting contracts of employment and senior level service agreements, all aspects of discrimination, complex business reorganisations and redundancy and TUPE transfers. She spends her time advising both local and national businesses as well as senior level directors. She is well known for her practical, commercial advice in employment law.
Additional information:
Arrival is 16:45 for the event to start at 17:15.
Parking at the DoubleTree by Hilton Swindon is free of charge. Please do however register your car with reception/parking eye monitor on arrival.
Light refreshments will be served.
Please note:
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4. Please cancel your ticket so someone else can take your place if your plans change and you can no longer make it – there is usually a waitlist for our events.
5. This event may include an external speaker who has prepared their own presentation. Any views or opinions expressed by the speaker are their own and do not reflect those of the CIPD.
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