Lemur Health is a specialist provider of professional development for the occupational health and safety community - practitioners who carry the legal duty to assess and manage workplace health risks under employment law obligations, including the Equality Act 2010, HASAWA, MHSWR, BS 30416, ISO 45001, ISO 45003, and the wider international standards framework. Our work brings to light dimensions of risk that have historically been overlooked or under-recognised, from sex and gender across the life course and intersectional factors to cultural differences. The result is risk management that holds up under audit, compliance review, and the realities of the workforce it serves.

Emma Persand RGN QN. Founder and Director

Emma Persand, RGN, Queen's Nurse and occupational health professional with deep expertise in menopause as a foreseeable occupational health risk. She co-authored BS 30416:2023 Menstruation, menstrual health and menopause in the workplace with BSI and key stakeholders, including CIPD, SOM, and UNISON — a standard recognised as the BSI Standard of the Year 2024. She was recognised as a joint recipient of the Outstanding Occupational Health Professional 2024 award by the Society of Occupational Medicine. 

She has contributed to parliamentary briefings on women in work, presented at national and international occupational health events, and is a contributing author to the European Menopause and Andropause Society's 2022 position statement, The essential curriculum for healthcare professionals.

Emma consults on and co-produces inclusive health and wellbeing strategies and initiatives for the public and corporate sectors, as well as for organisations of all sizes. She serves as Secretariat for the OSH Stakeholder Alliance, is a former chair of the Society of Occupational Medicine's Women's Health at Work Network and is co-chair of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority's Women and Girls' Equality Panel.

Her current focus is the design and delivery of Lemur Health's professional training programme, the first to address menopause through a health and safety and occupational health risk management lens, rather than a clinical or wellbeing lens.