Dr Richard Heron

Richard is the President of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine. In his day job, he is Vice-President Health and Chief Medical Officer at BP. Richard is responsible for strategic development of the BP Group Health agenda including Employee Wellbeing, Occupational Health and Hygiene requirements for over 80,000 employees and Community and Public Health matters in the countries where BP operate. He trained in internal medicine in the UK and New Zealand before specialising in Occupational Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He is a past President of the UK Society of Occupational Medicine. Richard is married to Helen and has three daughters. He and his family are keen runners.