Chris Sharp is a Consultant Occupational Physician with experience in the retail, utility, local authority, further education, food manufacture, infrastructure management, regulatory, nuclear and military sectors. He leads the occupational health team at WorkFit.

Since 2007 he has been a Board Member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (Royal College of Physicians) and is Past President of the Section of Occupational Medicine of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is currently National Medical Adviser to J Sainsbury plc. He acts as Pensions medical adviser to the Port of Felixstowe Pension Trustees.

His particular interests are in the risk management of musculoskeletal diseases and occupational asthma. He has worked with enterprises to create effective ergonomic, acute intervention and functional restoration strategies, assembling the business case for intervention and influencing decision makers to buy into practical schemes that demonstrate added value.

He teaches on occupational medicine courses and is involved in examination setting. He has published work in several national and international scientific journals, with others, on occupational medicine issues.

Chris says:

“I set up WorkFit in 2002 to deliver to customers the type of occupational health service that fitted their needs, something that the largest occupational health organisations have difficulty providing with their standard packages. This has clearly hit the “mark” as our regular customer surveys tell us to “keep doing what we are good at”. Our mission is to add business value at a fair price, not to provide a minimal service with consequent risk to the customer. This business philosophy has worked well as we still have the customers we have partnered with over the last 6 years, apart from those sadly who have ceased trading.”