Jo Forbes is Osborne Clarke’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing Strategy Manager, as well as a qualified health and safety solicitor. In ger current role, she is responsible for ensuring that good management of health, safety and wellbeing risks are embedded in their way of working at every level of Osborne Clarke. Jo does this through ensuring a robust assessment, management, governance and reporting framework on health, safety and wellbeing risks; as well as proactively influencing key stakeholders, so that culture change is achieved where needed. A key part of their wellbeing strategy is to engage closely with their people, so that they have a true understanding of the mental and emotional wellbeing challenges they face. The objective is that this will lead to tangible, positive change at root cause (cultural) level for their people, with budget, time and resource focussed on the areas which matter most to them.
