Lucy Kenyon is a Nurse Consultant and Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health with over 30 years’ lived experience within the field occupational health (OH) since diving headlong into thermal and ingestion health-risk assessments in the smelting (Melt) operation at a Ford foundry. She was responding to demands for on-site liquid refreshments during the UK’s – then – hottest night on record. She is an enthusiastic cheer-leader for OH who believes in continuous improvement, applying the “Kaizen” principles learned at Ford Motor Company and, later, the Bank of England Printing Works.

Since 2012 Lucy has run her own independent OH company, focused on delivering value-added OH services to small and medium sized (SME) companies, supporting employers and their employees to achieve mutually beneficial ‘workability’ outcomes.

She describes herself as a “logical linguist” and “secret statistician”, modelling her practice on Florence Nightingale’s and fuelling her special interest in digital technologies and and AI large language models (LLAMA) to improve employment health, safety and wellbeing outcomes. More recently she co-founded the first fully digital OH service having won funding from Innovate to research the safe and effective use of AI.
She is a cited author regularly publishes articles, reports (link to i-Croner) and authored the updated Chapter on Quality and Audit in the professional textbook Contemporary Occupational Health Nursing.

Passionate about Governance, she invests in her strategic skills through voluntary work as a Charity Trustee, Non-executive Director and School governor. She was instrumental in incorporating iOH, her professional association, as an Educational Charity to protect and promote the quality of OH provision. She also carries out pro-bono work for fostering, refugee and neuro-diversity groups.

She develops and delivers professional development courses for the NHS National Performance Advisory Group and employers, for whom she researches and develops evidence-based practice. She has also been a practice teacher since 1996, assessing, mentoring, supervising and teaching in a voluntary capacity for the RCN and Universities of Birmingham, Chester, Coventry, Derby, Robert Gordon and West of Scotland.