What Occupational Safety and Health Practitioners Need from an Evidence Centre
This study aims to identify the evidence needs of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) practitioners in high-risk sectors and occupations.
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Michael Whitmore is a research leader in Workplace Health, Safety, and Wellbeing at RAND Europe. For over three decades, his career has spanned the health and social care arenas, with a focus on well-being, health, and safety at work. He has led research projects for HSE, NHSEI, THIS Institute, The Health Foundation, LRF, EU-OSHA, Vitality Health, Ferring, PHE, and others. He has held global, national, and local systems leadership and research roles in occupational well-being, safety, and return to work, such as programme director for the first DWP & DH UK-wide £13m Fit for Work proof-of-concept evaluation programme and as director for International Wellbeing for Optum, part of the United Health Insurance group He has published various research reports on health, well-being and the workplace, provided evidence to NICE, and presented across NHS regions on evaluating workplace well-being. At a time of national emergency, he was seconded to establish the NHSEI national COVID-19 Vaccine Programme workstream in 2020 for estates, equipment, and logistics, leading up until the first vaccination. Whitmore is an accredited cognitive behavioural therapist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Whitmore holds an M.B.A. with distinction from Bayes Business School, an M.A. in applied social science and Diploma in social work from Durham University along with a B.A. (Hons) in law and psychology from the University of Keele.
Education
M.B.A., Cass Business School; M.A. in applied social science and social work, Durham University; B.Sc. in psychology and law, Keele University
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health
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